‎Handel: Saul by Steffen Balbach - Apple Music Classical

Symphony: Allegro - Larghetto - Allegro

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

8:59

How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (Chorus)

Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol

3:03

Air: An Infant Rais'd By Thy Command (Soprano)

Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

1:57

Trio: Along the Monster Atheist Strode (Chorus)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

1:04

The Youth Inspir'd By Thee, O Lord (Chorus)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Michael Berner

1:59

How Excellent Thy Name, O Lord (Chorus)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq

2:27

Recitative: He Comes! - Air: O God-like Youth! (Michal)

Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

3:23

Recitative: Behold, O King… Young Man… the Son of Jesse (Abner, Saul, David)

Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle

0:55

Air: O King, Your Favours With Delight (David)

Mark Le Brocq, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol

5:21

Recitative: O Early Piety! (Jonathan) - Air: What Abject Thoughts a Prince Can Have (Merab)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

2:50

Recitative: Yet Think With Whom This Honour You Bestow (Merab) - Air: Birth and Fortune I Despise! (Jonathan)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol

5:27

Recitative: Thou, Merab, First in Birth (Saul) - Air: My Soul Rejects the Thought With Scorn (Merab)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

1:43

Air: See With What a Scornful Air - Air: Ah, Lovely Youth! (Michal)

Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner

1:57

Symphony: Andante Allegro - Recitative: Already See the Daughters of the Land (Michal)

Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor

1:34

Welcome, Welcome, Mighty King! (Chorus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

1:47

Accompagnato: What Do I Hear? (Saul) - David His Ten Thousands Slew (Chorus)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner

1:02

Accompagnato: To Him Ten Thousands! - Air: With Rage I Shall Burst His Praises to Hear! (Saul)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq

1:45

Recitative: Imprudent Women!… 'Tis But His Old Disease (Jonathan, Michal)

Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Maulbronner Kammerchor

0:50

Air: Fell Rage and Black Despair Possest (Michal)

Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq

2:43

Recitative: Rack'd With Infernal Pains (Abner) - Air: O Lord, Whose Mercies No. less (David)

Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Stephen Varcoe, Maulbronner Kammerchor

4:52

Symphony (Arpa): Largo

Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq

1:47

Recitative: 'Tis All in Vain (Jonathan) - Air: A Serpent: In My Bosom Warm'd (Saul)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Michael Berner

2:32

Recitative: Has He Escap'd My Rage? (Saul) - Air: Capricious Man: In Humour Lost (Merab)

Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

4:07

Accompagnato: O Filial Piety! (Jonathan)

Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

1:55

Air: No, Cruel Father, No (Jonathan)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Stephen Varcoe

1:33

Air: O Lord, Whose Providence (High Priest)

Stephen Varcoe, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta

1:48

Preserve Him for the Glory of Thy Name (Chorus)

Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, George Frideric Handel

2:42

Envy! Eldest-born of Hell! (Chorus)

Laurie Reviol, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance

2:37

Recitative: Ah, Dearest Friend - Air: But Sooner Jordan's Stream: I Swear (Jonathan)

Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner

2:56

Recitative: My Father Comes (Jonathan)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

0:20

Recitative: Hast Thou Obey'd My Orders… Alas, My Father! (Saul, Jonathan) - Air: Sin Not, O King, Against the Youth (Jonathan)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq

3:10

Air: As Great Jehovah Lives: I Swear (Saul)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance

1:40

Air: From Cities Storm'd, and Battles Won (Jonathan)

Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner

2:20

Recitative: Appear, My Friend… No More Imagine Danger (Jonathan, Saul) - Air: Your Words, O King, My Loyal Heart (David)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner

1:41

Recitative: Yes, He Shall Wed My Daughter! (Saul)

Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe

0:30

Recitative: A Father's Will Has Authoriz'd My Love (Michal) - Duet: O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair (Michal, David)

Mark Le Brocq, Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

3:15

Is There a Man, Who All His Ways Directs (Chorus)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta

1:22

Symphony: Largo - Allegro

Nancy Argenta, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol

3:34

Recitative: Thy Father Is As Cruel, and As False (David) - Duet: At Persecution I Can Laugh (David, Michal)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Nancy Argenta, Maulbronner Kammerchor

2:01

Recitative: Whom Dost Thou Seek?… I Seek for David (Michal, Doeg) - Air: No, No, Let the Guilty Tremble (Michal)

Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

2:21

Recitative: Mean As He Was, He Is My Brother Now (Merab)

Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq

0:48

Air: Author of Peace, Who Canst Controll (Merab)

Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq, Steffen Balbach, Nancy Argenta, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Berner, Stephen Varcoe

3:08

Symphony: Allegro

Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

1:16

Accompagnato: The Time At Length Is Come (Saul)

Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance

0:43

Recitative: Where Is the Son of Jesse?… He Earnestly Asked Leave (Saul, Jonathan)

Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Laurie Reviol

1:03

O Fatal Consequence (Chorus)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe

4:39

Accompagnato: Wretch That I Am! (Saul)

Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Maulbronner Kammerchor

2:47

Recitative and Accompagnato: 'Tis Said, Here Lives a Woman (Saul)

Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Michael Berner

0:50

Recitative: With Me What Would'st Thou?… I Wou'd (Witch of Endor, Saul)

Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, George Frideric Handel

0:43

Air: Infernal Spirits, By Wose Pow'r (Witch of Endor)

Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta

1:48

Accompagnato: Why Hast Thou Force'd Me from the Realm of Peace… O Holy Prophet, Holy Prophet! (Samuel, Saul)

Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner, Michael Chance, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq

3:36

Symphony: Allegro

Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol

0:38

Recitative: Whence Com'st Thou?… Out of the Camp of Israel (David, Amalekite)

Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, George Frideric Handel

1:21

Air: Impious Wretch, of Race Accurst! (David)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Stephen Varcoe, Mark Le Brocq, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday

2:13

March: Grave - Largo e Staccato

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Nancy Argenta, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Chance

4:00

Mourn: Israel, Mourn Thy Beauty Lost (Chorus)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner

4:46

Air: From This Unhappy Day (Merab)

Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Stephen Varcoe, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner

3:08

Air: Brave Jonathan His Bow Ne'er Drew (David)

Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Nancy Argenta, Michael Berner, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Stephen Varcoe, Laurie Reviol, Mark Le Brocq, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Chance

2:41

Eagles Were Not So Swift As They (Chorus)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Laurie Reviol

0:21

Air: In Sweetest Harmony They Liv'd (Michal)

Maulbronner Kammerchor, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Michael Berner, Stephen Varcoe, Michael Chance, Mark Le Brocq, Nancy Argenta, Laurie Reviol

4:49

O Fatal Day! How Low the Mighty Lie! (David, Chorus)

Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Laurie Reviol, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Michael Chance, Nancy Argenta, Mark Le Brocq, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Michael Berner, Stephen Varcoe

5:14

Air: Ye Men of Judah, Weep No More (High Priest)

Laurie Reviol, Michael Chance, Michael Berner, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Mark Le Brocq, Stephen Varcoe, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Nancy Argenta

0:31

Gird On Thy Sword, Thou Man of Might (Chorus)

Stephen Varcoe, Nancy Argenta, Steffen Balbach, Jürgen Budday, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Mark Le Brocq, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Laurie Reviol, Michael Berner, Michael Chance

5:51

George Frideric Handel

Composer
Nancy Argenta

Soprano
Stephen Varcoe

Bass-Baritone
Michael Chance

Countertenor
Mark Le Brocq

Tenor

Handel: Saul

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