Handel, George Frideric: Joshua, Oratorio In Three Acts

Joshua (Josua) HWV 64 (Oratorium) (Gesamtaufnahme)
Introduzione: A tempo di ouverture (1. Akt)
Chor: Ye sons of Israel, ev’ry tribe attend
Rezitativ: Behold, my friends, what vast rewards are giv’n
Arie: O first in wisdom, first in pow’r!
Rezitativ: Matrons, and virgins, with unwearied pray’r
Arie: Oh! Who can tell, oh! Who can hear
Rezitativ: Caleb, attend to all I now prescribe
Chor: To long posterity we here record
Rezitativ Accompagnato: So long the memory shall last
Arie: While Kedron’s brook to Jordan’s stram
Rezitativ: But, who is he? Tremendous to behold!
Arie: Awful, pleasing being say
Rezitativ: Joshua, I come commission’d from on high
Rezitativ Accompagnato: In these blest scenes
Rezitativ: To give command, prerogative is thine
Arie: Haste, Israel, haste
Chor: The Lord commands, and Joshua leads
Rezitativ Accompagnato: In these blest scenes
Rezitativ: ‘Tis Achsah’s voice
Arioso: Hail lovely virgin of this blissful bow’r!
Arie: Hark, ’tis the linnet and the trush!
Rezitativ: Oh Achsah! Form’s for ev’ry chaste delight
Duet: Our limpid streams with freedom flow
Rezitativ: The trumpet calls, now Jericho shall know
Chor: May all the host of Heav’n attend him round
Rezitativ: ‘Till well; six times the Lord hath been obey’d (2. Teil)
March
Chor: Glory to God! – The strong cemented walls
Rezitativ: The walls are levell’d
Arie: See, the raging flames arise
Arie: To vanity and earthly pride
Rezitativ: Let all the seed of Abrah’m now prepare
Chor: Almighty Ruler of the skies
Rezitativ: Joshua, the men dispatch’d by thee
Chor: How soon our tow’ring hopes are cross’d!
Rezitativ: Whence this dejection?
Arie: We with redoubled rage return
Rezitativ: Now give the army breath; let war a while
Arie: Heroes, when with glory burning
Rezitativ: Indulgent heav’n hath heard my virgin pray’r
Arie: As cheers the sun the tender flow’r
Rezitativ: Sure I’m deceiv’d, with sorrow I behold
Arie: Nations, who in future story
Rezitativ: Brethren and friends, what joy
Flourish of warlike instruments
Rezitativ: Thus far our cause is favour’d by the Lord
Chor: O thou bright orb, great ruler of the day
Chor: Hail, mighty Joshua, hail! (3. Teil)
Arie: Happy, oh, thrice happe we
Rezitativ: Caleb, for holy Eleazer send
Arie: Shall in Mamre’s fertile plain
Chor: For all these mercies we will sing
Rezitativ: O Caleb, fear’d by foes, by friends ador’d
Arie: Place danger around me
Chor: Father of mercy, hear the pray’r we make
Rezitativ: In bloom of youth, this stripling hath achiv’d
Chor: See, the conqu’ring hero comes! – Duett: See the godlike youth advance!
Chor: See, the conqu’ring hero comes!
Rezitativ: Welcome, my son, my Othniel, good and great
Arie: Oh! had I Jubal’s lyre
Rezitativ: While life hall last
Duett: O peerless maid, with beauty blest
Rezitativ: While lawless tyrants, with ambition blind
Chor: The great Jehovah is our awful theme

Kenneth Tarver (Joshua), Tobias Berndt (Caleb), Renata Pokupic (Othniel) & Anna Dennis (Achsah), NDR Choir & Göttingen Festival Orchestra / Laurence Cummings

Reference: 0026403ACC
Barcode: 4015023264038
Length: 1:55:16
Label: Accent