John ShirleyQuirk George Frederick Handel Johannes Somary - Handel Judas Maccabeus (56 tracks) +Album Reviews

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John Shirley-Quirk, George Frederick Handel, Johannes Somary
Handel: Judas Maccabeus
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (27) - Disc #1
1. Overture Largo-Allegro-Largo
2. Chorus 'Mourn, Ye Afflicted Children'
3. Israelite Man, Woman 'Well May Your Sorrows'
4. Chorus 'For Zion, Lamentation Make'
5. Israelite Man 'Not In Vain Is All This Storm'
6. Israelite Woman 'Pious Orgies'
7. Chorus 'O Father, Whose Mighty Power'
8. Simon ' I Feel the Deity Within'
9. Simon 'Arm, Arm, Ye Brave'
10. Chorus 'We Come In Bright Array'
11. Judas 'Tis, Well, My Friends'
12. Judas 'Call Forth Thy Powers'
13. Israelite Woman & Man (Duet) 'Come, Ever Smiling Liberty'
14. Chorus 'Lead On, Lead On'
15. Judas 'So Willed My Father'
16. Chorus 'Disdainful Of Danger'
17. Judas 'Ambition'
18. Judas 'No Unhallowed Desire'
19. Israelite Man 'Haste We, My Brethren'
20. Chorus 'Hear Us, O Lord'
21. Chorus 'Fallen Is the Foe'
22. Soprano Duet, Chorus 'Zion Now Her Head Shall Raise'
23. Israelite Woman 'Oh, Let Eternal Honours'
24. Israelite Woman 'From Almighty Kings'
25. Israelite Woman, Man, Chorus 'Hail, Hail, Judea'
26. Judas 'Thanks To My Brethren'
27. Judas 'How Vain Is Man'
Track Listings (29) - Disc #2
1. Israelite Messenger 'Oh Judas, Oh My Brethren'
2. Israelite Woman, Chorus 'Ah! Wretched Israel'
3. Simon 'Be Comforted'
4. Simon 'The Lord Worketh Wonders'
5. Judas 'My Arms'
6. Judas, Chorus 'Sound an Alarm'
7. Chorus 'We Hear'
8. Simon 'Enough! To Heaven We Leave the Rest'
9. Simon 'With Pious Hearts'
10. Israelite Man, Woman 'Ye Worshippers'
11. Israelite Woman 'Wise Men, Flattering'
12. Israelite Woman, Man (Duet) 'Oh! Never, Never Bow'
13. Chorus 'We Never Will Bow Down'
14. Israelite Man 'Father Of Heaven'
15. Israelite Man 'See Yon Flames'
16. Israelite Woman 'Oh Grant It'
17. Israelite Woman 'So Shall the Lute'
18. Israelite Messenger 'From Capharsalama'
19. Chorus 'See the Conquering Hero'
20. March
21. Duet & Chorus 'Sing Unto God'
22. Judas 'Sweet Flow the Strains'
23. Judas 'With Honour, Let Desert'
24. Eupolemus 'Peace To My Countrymen'
25. Chorus 'To Our Great God'
26. Israelite Woman 'Again To Earth
27. Israelite Woman, Man (Duet) 'Oh Lovely Peace'
28. Simon 'Rejoice, Oh Judah'
29. Chorus 'Hallelujah-Amen'

HARPER/WATTS/YOUNG/&

CD Details

All Artists: John Shirley-Quirk, George Frederick Handel, Johannes Somary, Jean Temperley, English Chamber Orchestra, Heather Harper, Patricia Clark, Alexander Young
Title: Handel: Judas Maccabeus
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Musical Concepts
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 8/7/2007
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 894640001721

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HARPER/WATTS/YOUNG/&

CD Reviews

An Old Friend in a Bargain Re-issue

Virginia Opera Fan | Falls Church, VA USA | 10/20/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"It is good to have Somary's Vanguard 30 something year old recording of Judas Maccabeus back in this Alto re-issue. Alexander Young is a wonderful title role hero with a nice, heroic heft to the voice. The rival performances on Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion don't measure up to the standard he sets in the role. Heather Harper, Helen Watts and Shirley-Quirk are also quite good. Orchestra and chorus are alert and precise.

Somary's conducting is perhaps a little leisurely and old fashioned sounding in comparison to today's tempo norms but the performance is well paced and stylish given the state of performance practice at the time.

The sound is well-remastered and at least as good as that of the Vanguard LPs (which I still own) without the surface clicks.

I prefer the sound of period instruments, so the rival (and very good) performance on Hyperion with Jamie McDougal in the title role, Emma Kirkby, Catherine Denley, Michael George (et al) conducted by Robert King is my first choice. The Harmonia Mundi set is routinely conducted and the title role is accurately sung, but without much heroim in evidence.

This set is worth the price as a memento of Alexander Young, one of the finest Handel tenors of the recent past."