Description
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
STOCK IMAGES. Records are glossy and looks great. Booklet included. Box has just minor shelfwear. 1985 Dutch pressing.
Notes:
Recorded in collaboration with West German Radio, Cologne, on the occasion of the 1984 Goettingen Handel Festival.
Recorded: London, 6/1984
. “Solomon” (Oratorio In Three Acts)
A1. Overture 5:09
. Act I
. Scene 1
A2. “Your Harps And Cymbals” (Chorus) 3:18
A3. “Praise Ye The Lord” (A Levite) 4:46
A4. “With Pious Heart” (Chorus) 4:40
A5. “Almighty Power” (Solomon) 2:58
A6. “Imperial Solomon” – “Sacred Rapture” (Zadok) 4:49
A7. “Throughout The Land” (Chorus) 3:30
B1. “Bless’d Be The Lord” – “What Though I Trace” (Solomon) 7:00
. Scene 2
B2. “And See My Queen” (Solomon) 0:44
B3. “Bless’d The Day” (Queen) 4:45
B4. “Thou Fair Inhabitant” (Solomon) “Welcome As The Dawn Of Day” (Solomon, Queen) 3:58
B5. “My Booming Fair” – “Haste, Haste” (Solomon) 3:22
B6. “When Thou Art Absent” – “With Thee Th’Unshelter’d Moor I’d Tread” (Queen) 2:21
B7. “May No Rash Intruder” (Chorus) 3:16
. Act II
. Scene 1
C1. “From The Censer” (Chorus) 5:10
C2. “Prais’d Be The Lord” – “When The Sun” (Solomon) 5:10
C3. “Great Prince” – “Thrice Bless’d” – (Levite) 3:41
. Scene 2
C4. “My Sovereign Liege” (Attendant, Solomon) 1:53
. Scene 3
C5. “Thou Son Of David” (1st Harlot) – “Words Are Weak” (1st & 2nd Harlot, Solomon) 5:35
D1. “What Says The Other” (Solomon, 2nd Harlot) – “Thy Sentence, Great King” (2nd Harlot) 3:28
D2. “Withhold, Withhold The Executing Hand” – “Can I See My Infant Gor’d” (1st Harlot) 4:23
D3. “Israel, Attend” (Solomon) 1:19
D4. “Thrice Bless’d Be The King” (1st Harlot, Solomon) 3:58
D5. “From The East Unto The West” (Chorus) 2:29
D6. “No More Shall Armed Bands” – “Beneath The Vine” (1st Harlot) 6:23
D7. “Swell, Swell The Full Chorus” (Chorus) 2:43
. Act III
E1. The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba 3:01
E2. “From Arabia’s Spicy Shores” (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon) 1:25
E3. “Sweep, Sweep The String” – “Music, Spread Thy Voice” (Solomon, Chorus) 3:35
E4. “Now A Diff’rent Measure” – “Shake The Dome” (Solomon, Chorus) 1:47
E5. “Then At Once From Rage” (Solomon) – “Draw The Tear From Hopeless Love” (Chorus) 3:20
E6. “Next The Tortur’d Soul” – “Thus Rolling Surges Rise” (Solomon, Chorus) 3:40
F1. “Thy Harmony’s Divine” (Queen Of Sheba) 0:59
F2. “Thrice Happy King” – “Golden Columns” (Zadok) 3:58
F3. “May Peace In Salem Ever Dwell” – “Will The Sun Forget To Streak” (Queen Of Sheba) 5:54
F4. “Adieu, Fair Queen” (Solomon) – “Ev’ry Joy That Wisdom Knows” (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon) 3:01
F5. “Praise The Lord” (Chorus) 4:39
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