Israel in Egypt

Album by George Frideric Handel & Ian Bostridge & Michael Chance & Susan Gritton & Stephen Varcoe & Cambridge Choir of King’s College & The Brandenburg Consort & Stephen Cleobury

Israel in Egypt is an oratorio by German-born composer Georg Friedrich Händel, first performed in 1739. The large-scale Baroque choral work is dominated by extensive chorus writing, imitative counterpoint and vivid word-painting that sets biblical narrative to music, and it marks a development in Händel's career as he consolidated the English oratorio form and the prominence of choral music in 18th-century England.
First released: 2000

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I. no. 1. Prelude
    1:46
  2. 2.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 17. "Moses and the children of Israel"
    0:49
  3. 3.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 18. "I will sing unto the Lord"
    2:39
  4. 4.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 2. "The sons of Israel do mourn"
    8:47
  5. 5.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 19. "The Lord is my strength"
    3:35
  6. 6.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 3. "He put on righteousness"
    2:18
  7. 7.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 4. "When the ear heard him"
    3:19
  8. 8.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 20. "He is my God" / No. 21 "And I will exalt him"
    3:12
  9. 9.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 5. "How is the mighty fall'n"
    1:02
  10. 10.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 22. "The Lord is a man of war"
    5:32
  11. 11.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 23. "The depths have covered them"
    2:00
  12. 12.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 6. "He deliver'd the poor"
    5:45
  13. 13.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 7. "How is the mighty fall'n"
    1:03
  14. 14.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 24. "Thy right hand, O Lord" / No. 25 "And in the greatness"
    2:05
  15. 15.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 26. "Thou sentest forth thy wrath"
    1:53
  16. 16.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 8. "The righteous shall be had"
    3:24
  17. 17.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 9. "Their bodies are buried in peace"
    5:05
  18. 18.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 27. "And with the blast of thy nostrils"
    3:04
  19. 19.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 10. "The people will tell of their wisdom"
    2:03
  20. 20.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 28. "The enemy said"
    2:27
  21. 21.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 29. "Thou didst blow with the wind"
    2:09
  22. 22.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 11. "They shall receive a glorious kingdom"
    3:21
  23. 23.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 30. "Who is like unto thee, O Lord" / No. 31 "The earth swallowed them"
    2:16
  24. 24.
    Israel in Egypt: Part I, no. 12. "The merciful goodness of the Lord"
    3:42
  25. 25.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 32. "Thou in thy mercy"
    3:59
  26. 26.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 1. "Now there arose a new king over Egypt"
    0:24
  27. 27.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 33. "The people shall hear"
    6:49
  28. 28.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 2. "And the children of Israel sighed"
    3:33
  29. 29.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 3. "Then sent he Moses"
    0:32
  30. 30.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 34. "Thou shalt bring them in"
    3:51
  31. 31.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 4. "They loathed to drink of the river"
    2:01
  32. 32.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 35. "The Lord shall reign for ever and ever"
    0:39
  33. 33.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 5. "Their land brought forth frogs"
    2:20
  34. 34.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 36. "For the horse of pharaoh"
    0:27
  35. 35.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 6. "He spake the word"
    2:18
  36. 36.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 37. "The Lord shall reign for ever and ever"
    0:40
  37. 37.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 38. "And Miriam the prophetess"
    0:22
  38. 38.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 7. "He gave them hailstones for rain"
    2:15
  39. 39.
    Israel in Egypt: Part III, no. 39. "Sing ye to the Lord"
    3:33
  40. 40.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 8. "He sent a thick darkness"
    2:55
  41. 41.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 9. "He smote all the first-born of Egypt"
    2:32
  42. 42.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 10. "But as for his people"
    3:58
  43. 43.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 11. "Egypt was glad"
    2:14
  44. 44.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 12. "He rebuked the Red Sea"
    0:43
  45. 45.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 13. "He led them through the deep"
    1:29
  46. 46.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 14. "But the waters overwhelmed their enemies"
    1:07
  47. 47.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 15. "And Israel saw that great work"
    0:51
  48. 48.
    Israel in Egypt: Part II, no. 16. "And believed the Lord"
    2:56

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