Judas Maccabaeus

Album by George Frideric Handel & Núria Rial & Lucia Duchoňová & Lothar Odinius & Sergio Foresti & Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chor Lübeck & Elbipolis Barockorchester Hamburg & Rolf Beck

Judas Maccabaeus is an oratorio by G.F. Händel, first performed in 1747. It exemplifies Handel's Baroque choral and orchestral writing, combining recitatives, solo arias, ensemble choruses and instrumental sinfonias, and was composed during his mature London period as part of his sequence of English-language oratorios.
First released: 30th July 2010

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Overture
    5:47
  2. 2.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: O Judas, o My Brethren! (Rec.)
    0:52
  3. 3.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Ah! Wretched Israel! (Air)
    6:57
  4. 4.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Mourn, Ye Afflicted Children (Chorus)
    4:30
  5. 5.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Be Comforted (Rec.)
    0:40
  6. 6.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Well May Your Sorrows... Daughters, Let Your Distressful Cries (Rec.)
    1:07
  7. 7.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: From This Dread Scene (Duet)
    2:32
  8. 8.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: The Lord Worketh Wonders (Air)
    2:46
  9. 9.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: For Sion Lamentation Make (Chorus)
    2:33
  10. 10.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: My Arms! Against This Gorgias Will I Go (Rec.)
    0:21
  11. 11.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Not Vain Is All the Storm of Grief (Rec.)
    1:07
  12. 12.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Sound an Alarm... We Hear (Air & Chorus)
    3:49
  13. 13.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Pious Orgies (Air)
    3:03
  14. 14.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Enough! To Heav’n We Leave the Rest (Rec.)
    0:45
  15. 15.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: With Pious Hearts (Air)
    2:42
  16. 16.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: O Father Whose Almighty Pow’r (Chorus)
    2:27
  17. 17.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Ye Worshippers of God... No More in Sion (Rec.)
    1:21
  18. 18.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: I Feel the Deity Within (Rec. Acc.)
    0:54
  19. 19.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Arm, Arm, Ye Brave (Air)
    3:01
  20. 20.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: O Never Bow We Down... We Never Will Bow Down (Duet & Chorus)
    6:37
  21. 21.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: We Come in Bright Array (Chorus)
    1:11
  22. 22.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: Father of Heav’n (Air)
    7:19
  23. 23.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: See, See Yon Flames (Rec. Acc.)
    0:39
  24. 24.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: T’Is Well My Friends (Rec.)
    0:40
  25. 25.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: O Grant It, Heav’n (Rec.)
    0:27
  26. 26.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Call Forth Thy Pow’Rs (Air)
    1:45
  27. 27.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: To Heav’n’s Immortal King We Kneel (Rec.)
    0:27
  28. 28.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: So Shall the Lute and Harp Awake (Air)
    4:18
  29. 29.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: O Liberty, Thou Choicest Treasure (Air)
    2:05
  30. 30.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: From Capharsalama (Rec.)
    0:44
  31. 31.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: Yet More, Nicanor Lies (Rec.)
    0:50
  32. 32.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Come, Ever-Smiling Liberty (Air)
    3:05
  33. 33.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: See, the Conqu’Ring Hero Comes (Chorus)
    2:30
  34. 34.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: O Judas, May These Noble Views Inspire (Rec.)
    0:15
  35. 35.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: March
    2:24
  36. 36.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: T’Is Liberty (Air)
    2:41
  37. 37.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Come Ever-Smiling Liberty (Duet)
    1:13
  38. 38.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: Sing Unto God (Solo & Chorus)
    2:50
  39. 39.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: Sweet Flow the Strains (Rec.)
    1:06
  40. 40.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Lead On, Lead On (Chorus)
    0:49
  41. 41.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: So Will’d My Father, Now at Rest (Rec.)... We Come; O See, Thy Sons Prepare (Rec. Acc.)
    1:10
  42. 42.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: With Honour Let Desert Be Crown’d (Air)
    3:29
  43. 43.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Disdainful of Danger (Semi-Chorus)
    1:53
  44. 44.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: Again to Earth Let Gratitude Descend (Rec.)
    0:52
  45. 45.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: O Lovely Peace (Duet)
    7:04
  46. 46.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Ambition! If E’Er Honour Was Thine Aim (Rec.)
    0:16
  47. 47.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part III: Rejoice, o Judah... Hallelujah, Amen (Air & Chorus)
    3:37
  48. 48.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: No Unhallow’d Desire (Air)
    2:08
  49. 49.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Haste We, My Brethren (Rec.)
    0:15
  50. 50.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part I: Hear Us, o Lord (Chorus)
    3:45
  51. 51.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Fall’n Is the Foe (Chorus)
    3:17
  52. 52.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Victorious Hero! (Rec.)
    0:47
  53. 53.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: So Rapid Thy Course Is (Air)
    4:12
  54. 54.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: O Let Eternal Honours Crown His Name (Rec.)
    0:35
  55. 55.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: From Mighty Kings He Took the Spoil (Air)
    7:09
  56. 56.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Hail, Hail, Judea, Happy Land! (Duet & Chorus)
    2:16
  57. 57.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: Thanks to My Brethren (Rec.)
    0:44
  58. 58.
    Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Part II: How Vain Is Man Who Boasts in Fight (Air)
    5:45

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