Georg Friedrich Händel - Carolyn Watkinson • Nancy Argenta • Barbara Hendricks • Anthony Rolfe Johnson • The Monteverdi Choir • The English Baroque Soloists • John Eliot Gardiner - Solomon (2xCD, RE + Box, Sli) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Notes:

Gold stripe boarder around the portrait & gold italicised "Digital Classics" in the top right corner visible on front cover. ℗ 1985 © Phonogram International B.V. Printed in West Germany Made in West Germany CD is manufactured by Polygram in Hanover, West Germany Recorded in collaboration with West German Radio, Cologne, on the occasion of the 1984 Goettingen Handel Festival. Recorded: London, 6/1984 Total playing time: 136:20

. "Solomon" (Oratorio In Three Acts)
1-1. Overture 5:09
. Act I
. Scene 1
1-2. "Your Harps And Cymbals" (Chorus) 3:18
1-3. "Praise Ye The Lord" (A Levite) 4:46
1-4. "With Pious Heart" (Chorus) 4:40
1-5. "Almighty Power" (Solomon) 2:58
1-6. "Imperial Solomon" - "Sacred Rapture" (Zadok) 4:49
1-7. "Throughout The Land" (Chorus) 3:30
1-8. "Bless'd Be The Lord" - "What Though I Trace" (Solomon) 7:00
. Scene 2
1-9. "And See My Queen" (Solomon) 0:44
1-10. "Bless'd The Day" (Queen) 4:45
1-11. "Thou Fair Inhabitant" (Solomon) "Welcome As The Dawn Of Day" (Solomon, Queen) 3:58
1-12. "My Booming Fair" - "Haste, Haste" (Solomon) 3:22
1-13. "When Thou Art Absent" - "With Thee Th'Unshelter'd Moor I'd Tread" (Queen) 2:21
1-14. "May No Rash Intruder" (Chorus) 3:16
. Act II
. Scene 1
1-15. "From The Censer" (Chorus) 5:10
1-16. "Prais'd Be The Lord" - "When The Sun" (Solomon) 5:10
1-17. "Great Prince" - "Thrice Bless'd" - (Levite) 3:41
. Scene 2
2-1. "My Sovereign Liege" (Attendant, Solomon) 1:53
. Scene 3
2-2. "Thou Son Of David" (1st Harlot) - "Words Are Weak" (1st & 2nd Harlot, Solomon) 5:35
2-3. "What Says The Other" (Solomon, 2nd Harlot) - "Thy Sentence, Great King" (2nd Harlot) 3:28
2-4. "Withhold, Withhold The Executing Hand" - "Can I See My Infant Gor'd" (1st Harlot) 4:23
2-5. "Israel, Attend" (Solomon) 1:19
2-6. "Thrice Bless'd Be The King" (1st Harlot, Solomon) 3:58
2-7. "From The East Unto The West" (Chorus) 2:29
2-8. "No More Shall Armed Bands" - "Beneath The Vine" (1st Harlot) 6:23
2-9. "Swell, Swell The Full Chorus" (Chorus) 2:43
. Act III
2-10. The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba 3:01
2-11. "From Arabia's Spicy Shores" (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon) 1:25
2-12. "Sweep, Sweep The String" - "Music, Spread Thy Voice" (Solomon, Chorus) 3:35
2-13. "Now A Diff'rent Measure" - "Shake The Dome" (Solomon, Chorus) 1:47
2-14. "Then At Once From Rage" (Solomon) - "Draw The Tear From Hopeless Love" (Chorus) 3:20
2-15. "Next The Tortur'd Soul" - "Thus Rolling Surges Rise" (Solomon, Chorus) 3:40
2-16. "Thy Harmony's Divine" (Queen Of Sheba) 0:59
2-17. "Thrice Happy King" - "Golden Columns" (Zadok) 3:58
2-18. "May Peace In Salem Ever Dwell" - "Will The Sun Forget To Streak" (Queen Of Sheba) 5:54
2-19. "Adieu, Fair Queen" (Solomon) - "Ev'ry Joy That Wisdom Knows" (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon) 3:01
2-20. "Praise The Lord" (Chorus) 4:39

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Barcode 028941261229
SPARS Code DDD
Price Code PH2
Price Code PG927
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