Handel* – Watkinson* • Argenta* • Hendricks* • Rolfe Johnson* • Monteverdi Choir* • English Baroque Soloists* • John Eliot Gardiner – Solomon (2xCD, Album + Box, Sli) (Near Mint (NM or M-))

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

BOX 292-M-ANU

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© Phonogram International B.V.
Printed in West Germany
Made in West Germany
CD is manufactured by Polygram in Hanover, West Germany

106 page booklet with libretto in German, English and French.

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

Barcode 0 28941 26122 9
Barcode 028941261229
Other 416 268-2
Other 416 269-2
SPARS Code DDD
Other PH2
Other PG927

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