Handel: Susanna – Laurence Cummings

Susanna HWV 66 (Oratorium) (Gesamtaufnahme)
Ouvertüre (1. Akt)
Chor: How long, oh Lord
Rezitativ: Our crimes repeated
Arie: Clouds o’ertake the brightest day
Rezitativ: Oh Joacim, when thou art by
Duett: When thou art nigh
Rezitativ: Lives there in Babylon
Arie: Who fears the Lord
Rezitativ: A flame like mine
Arie: When first I saw my lovely
Rezitativ: Let me confess
Arie: Would custom bid the melting fair
Rezitativ: Down my old cheeks
Arie: Peace, crown’d with roses
Rezitativ: O pious Chelsias
Arie: Without the swain’s assiduous care
Rezitativ: Source of each joy
Arie: The parent bird in search of food
Rezitativ: On Joacim may ev’ry joy attend
Accompagnato: What means this weight
Chor: Virtue shall never long be oppressed
Arie: Bending to the throne of glory
Accompagnato: Tyrannic love!
Arie: Ye verdant hills, ye balmy vales
Rezitativ: Say, is it fit that age should
Arie: The oak that for a thousand years
Rezitativ: Ye winged gales, convey
Arie: When the trumpet sounds to arms
Chor: Righteous Heav’n
Rezitativ: Frost nips the flow’rs (2. Akt)
Arie: On fair Euphrates’ verdant side
Rezitativ: Lead me, oh lead me
Arie: Chrystal streams in murmurs flowing
Rezitativ: Too lovely youth
Arie: Ask if yon damask rose be sweet
Rezitativ: In vain you try to cure
Arie: Beneath the cypress’ gloomy shade
Rezitativ: Thy plaintive strains
Arie: Blooming as the face of spring
Rezitativ: We long have languish’d
Arie: The torrent that sweeps
Rezitativ: Deceitful wolves!
Trio: Away! Away!
Rezitativ: Alas! I find the fatal toils are set
Arie: If guiltless blood be your intent
Chor: Let justice reign and flourish
Rezitativ: Is fair Susanna false?
Arie: On the rapid whirlwind’s wing
Chor: Oh Joacim, thy wedded truth
Chor: The cause is decided (3. Akt)
Rezitativ: I hear my doom
Arie: Faith displays her rosy wing
Rezitativ: Permit me, fair
Arie: Round thy urn my tears shall
Rezitativ: ‘Tis thus the crocodile
Accompagnato: But you, who see me on the verge of life
Rezitativ: The sentence now is past
Arie: ‘Tis not age’s sullen face
Rezitativ: O wond’rous youth
Chor: Impartial Heaven
Rezitativ: Thou artful wretch!
Arie: Chastity, thou cherub bright
Rezitativ: But see! My lord, my Joacim appears
Arie: Gold within the furnace try’d
Rezitativ: The joyful news of chaste Susanna’s truth
Arie: Raise your voice to sounds of joy
Chor: Bless’d be the day
Rezitativ: Hence ev’ry pang
Arie: Guilt trembling spoke my doom
Rezitativ: Sweet are the accents
Duett: To my chaste Susanna’s praise
Chor: A virtuous wife

Christopher Lowrey, Colin Emily Fons

Reference: 0026406ACC
Barcode: 4015023264069
Length: 3:03:40
Label: Accent