Caterina Sforza · 01-Мар-19 06:11(6 лет 6 месяцев назад, ред. 01-Мар-19 15:29)
Handel - Solomon; Love in Bath / Гендель - Соломон Жанр: Classical oratorio Страна-производитель диска: Made in the EU Год издания диска: 2005 Издатель (лейбл): EMI Номер по каталогу: 5 86516 2 Дата записи: Solomon - 1955-1957 ; Love in Bath - 1956, 1957, 1959 Аудиокодек: FLAC Тип рипа: image+.cue Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 76:03 + 74:29 / 02:30:35 Источник: релизер сайт-источник/ник/другое: makdelart, подарок; Caterina Sforza - работа с cue, доп. сканы Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да, полный авторский буклет jpeg, 11 страниц
Треклист
CD1
01. Overture 02. Part I: Your harps and cymbals sound (Chorus of Priests) 03. Recitative: Almighty Power, who rul'st the earth and skies (Solomon) 04. With pious heart and holy tongue (Chorus of Priests) 05. Recitative: Imperial Solomon, thy prayers are heard (Zadok) 06. Air: Sacred raptures cheer my breast (Zadok) 07. Recitative: Blest be the Lord (Solomon) 08. Air: What though I trace each herb and flower (Solomon) 09. Air: Bless'd the day (Queen) 10. Recitative: Thou fair inhabitant of Nile (Solomon, Queen) 11. Duet: Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon, Queen) 12. Recitative: When thou art absent from my sight (Queen) 13. Air: With thee the unsheltered moor I'd tread (Queen) 14. Recitative: My blooming fair, come, come away (Solomon) 15. May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours (Chorus) 16. Sinfonia 17. Recitative: From Arabia's spicy shores (Queen of Sheba, Solomon) 18. Air: Ev'ry sight these eyes behold (Queen of Sheba) 19. Recitative: Sweep, sweep the string to soothe the royal fair (Solomon) 20. Solo and Chorus: Music, spread thy voice around (Solomon, Israelites) 21. Air and Chorus: Now a diff'rent measure try (Solomon, Israelites) 22. Recitative: Then, at once, from rage remove (Solomon, Chorus of Israelites) 23. Recitative: Next the tortured soul release (Solomon) 24. Thus rolling surges rise (Chorus) 25. Recitative: Thy harmony's divine, great King! (Queen of Sheba) 26. Part II: From the censer curling rise (Chorus) 27. From the East unto the West (Chorus of Israelites)
CD2
01. Recitative: Thrice happy King! (Zadok) 02. Air: Golden columns, fair and bright (Zadok) 03. Air: Beneath the vine (First Harlot) 04. Recitative: Gold now is common on our happy shore (Solomon) 05. Air: How green our fertile pastures look! (Solomon) 06. Swell the full chorus to Solomon's praise (Chorus of Priests) 07. Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell (Queen of Sheba) 08. Air: Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba) 09. Recitative: Adieu, fair Queen (Solomon) 10. Praise the Lord (Chorus) Love in Bath (Suite aranged by Beechm from Handel): 11. 1. The Pump Room 12. 2. Beau Nash 13. 3. The Linleys 14. 4. Hunting Dance 15. 5. Love Scene 16. 6. The Quuarrel 17. 7. The Pump Room (reprise) 18. 8. The Plot 19. 9. The Weary Flunkeys 20. 10. The Exquisites (Madrigal) 21. 11. Second Love Scene 22. 12. March 23. 13. Sarabande 24. 14. Minuet 25. 15. Hornpipe 26. 16. Rondeau 27. 17. Gigue 28. 18. March (represe) 29. 19. Interlude 30. 20. Serenade (Ilse Hollweg, soprano) 31. 21-22. The Elopement – Discovery – Finale
Исполнители
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) SOLOMON Oratorio in three acts, HWV67 (edited & revised by T. Beecham) John Cameron (Solomon –baritone-) Elsie Morison (Queen –soprano) Alexander Young (Zadok –tenor-) Lois Marshall (Queen of Sheba –soprano-) Beecham Choral Society (chorus master: Denis Vaughan) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Release Date: May 24, 2005
REM GENRE Oratorio REM DATE 1955 REM DISCID A711D31B REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.3" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society (chorus master: Denis Vaughan), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) / John Cameron (Solomon –baritone-), Elsie Morison (Queen –soprano), Alexander Young (Zadok –tenor-), Lois Marshall (Queen of Sheba –soprano-)" TITLE "Handel - Solomon (Disc 1)" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)" FILE "Handel - Solomon (Disc 1) - Thomas Beecham.flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "SOLOMON, Oratorio in three acts, HWV67 (edited & revised by T. Beecham) - PART 1. Overture" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Double Chorus: “Your harps and cymbals sound”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 04:17:08 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “Almighty Power, who rul’st the earth and skies”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 08:15:68 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Double Chorus: “With pious heart and holy tongue”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 10:44:51 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Zadok): “Imperial Solomon, thy prayers are heard”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Alexander Young" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 15:25:49 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Zadok): “Sacred raptures cheer my breast”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Alexander Young" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 16:09:10 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “Blest be the Lord, who look’d with gracious eyes”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 21:14:37 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Solomon): “What though I trace each herb and flower”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 21:50:68 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Queen): “Bless’d the day when first my eyes”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Elsie Morison" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 25:22:33 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon, Queen): “Thou fair inhabitant of Nile”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron, Elsie Morison" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 30:55:08 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "Duet (Queen, Solomon): “Welcome as the dawn of day”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Elsie Morison, John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 31:47:55 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Queen): “When thou art absent from my sight”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Elsie Morison" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 35:57:05 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Queen): “With thee the unsheltered moor I’d tread”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Elsie Morison" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 36:14:26 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “My blooming fair, come, come away”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 39:29:00 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Chorus: “May no rash intruder disturb their soft hours”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 39:45:57 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "Sinfonia [Arrival of the Queen of Sheba]" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 43:45:49 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Queen of Sheba): “From Arabia’s spicy shores”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Lois Marshall" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 46:57:47 TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Queen of Sheba): “Ev’ry sight these eyes behold”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Lois Marshall" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 47:28:02 TRACK 19 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “Sweep, sweep the string, to sooth the royal fair”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 52:19:63 TRACK 20 AUDIO TITLE "Solo (Solomon) and Chorus: “Music, spread thy voice around”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 52:40:42 TRACK 21 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Solomon) and Chorus: “Now a diff’rent measure try”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 56:55:37 TRACK 22 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon) and Chorus: “Then, at once, from rage remove”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 58:58:59 TRACK 23 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “Next the tortured soul release”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 62:46:69 TRACK 24 AUDIO TITLE "Chorus: “Thus rolling surges rise”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 63:08:06 TRACK 25 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Queen of Sheba): “Thy harmony’s divine, great King!”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Lois Marshall" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 65:14:01 TRACK 26 AUDIO TITLE "PART 2. Chorus: “From the censer curling rise”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 66:55:10 TRACK 27 AUDIO TITLE "Chorus: “From the East unto the West”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 72:52:52
CD2
REM GENRE Classical REM DATE 1955 REM DISCID C011751F REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.3" PERFORMER "Solomon: Beecham Choral Society (chorus master: Denis Vaughan), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) / John Cameron (Solomon –baritone-), Elsie Morison (Queen –soprano), Alexander Young (Zadok –tenor-), Lois Marshall (Queen of Sheba –soprano-) ; Love in Bath: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)" TITLE "Handel - Solomon (concl.) & Love in Bath (Disc 2)" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)" FILE "Handel - Solomon (concl.) & Love in Bath (Disc 2) - Thomas Beecham.flac" WAVE TRACK 01 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Zadok): “Thrice happy King!”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Alexander Young" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 00:00:00 TRACK 02 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Zadok): “Golden columns, fair and bright”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Alexander Young" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 01:09:66 TRACK 03 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Soprano): “Beneath the vine” [First Harlot]" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Elsie Morison" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 04:28:53 TRACK 04 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “Gold is now common on our happy shore”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 07:47:16 TRACK 05 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Solomon): “How green our fertile pastures look”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 08:29:65 TRACK 06 AUDIO TITLE "Chorus: “Swell the full chorus to Solomon’s praise”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 12:50:33 TRACK 07 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Queen of Sheba): “May peace in Salem ever dwell”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Lois Marshall" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 16:35:47 TRACK 08 AUDIO TITLE "Air (Queen of Sheba): “Will the sun forget to streak”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & Lois Marshall" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 17:41:71 TRACK 09 AUDIO TITLE "Recitative (Solomon): “Adieu, fair Queen”" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham & John Cameron" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 22:52:32 TRACK 10 AUDIO TITLE "Double Chorus: “Praise the Lord with harp and tongue!”" PERFORMER "Beecham Choral Society, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "George Frideric Handel" INDEX 01 23:11:05 TRACK 11 AUDIO TITLE "LOVE IN BATH (suite arr. by Beecham from Handel) - 1. The Pump Room" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 00 27:27:48 INDEX 01 27:35:66 TRACK 12 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 2. Beau Nash" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 30:05:01 TRACK 13 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 3. The Linleys" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 31:48:55 TRACK 14 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 4. Hunting Dance" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 33:39:30 TRACK 15 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 5. Love Scene" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 35:05:70 TRACK 16 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 6. The Quarrel" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 37:51:55 TRACK 17 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 7. The Pump Room (reprise)" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 39:15:42 TRACK 18 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 8. The Plot" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 40:26:12 TRACK 19 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 9. The Weary Flunkeys" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 42:01:22 TRACK 20 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 10. The Exquisites (Madrigal)" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 44:11:07 TRACK 21 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 11. Second Love Scene" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 48:38:27 TRACK 22 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 12. March" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 51:25:11 TRACK 23 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 13. Sarabande" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 52:33:33 TRACK 24 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 14. Minuet" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 54:29:72 TRACK 25 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 15. Hornpipe" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 58:27:06 TRACK 26 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 16. Rondeau" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 59:44:71 TRACK 27 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 17. Gigue" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 61:38:16 TRACK 28 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 18. March (reprise)" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 64:38:03 TRACK 29 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 19. Interlude" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 65:47:00 TRACK 30 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 20. Serenade" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 67:54:50 TRACK 31 AUDIO TITLE "Love in Bath - 21.-22. The Elopement - Discovery - Finale" PERFORMER "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham" REM COMPOSER "Thomas Beecham" INDEX 01 70:44:70
Review
There was a time, not long ago, when Baroque scores were treated as a folio of performance suggestions, not as the letter of the law. Performers felt free to add music or (more often) to take it away, and to do other things which were quite different from what the composer originally had in mind. Sir Thomas Beecham had no qualms about performing surgery on the music of George Frideric Handel, a composer he absolutely adored. No disrespect was intended. In fact, Beecham loved Handel so much, he wanted everyone else to love him too. That meant making him more palatable for modern tastes – bigger and leaner, at the same time. By today's standards, what Beecham did to Solomon in his 1955-56 recording of the oratorio is a crime. He cut a great deal of music (the episode of Solomon settling the child custody dispute between two harlots is totally excised), moved other numbers around, made Solomon into a baritone (Handel wrote the part for a countertenor), and beefed up the scoring. The result represents the English choral tradition at its best, albeit also its most Victorian. Even at the time of its release, several critics cried "foul," although the records sold well, especially when they were reissued on the budget Seraphim label. Beecham's Solomon was not reissued on CD until recently. First, the Somm label did it, at full price, and with no coupling. Now, almost immediately after, EMI Classics has done it at a super-budget price (this is a reissue in the "Gemini" series), and with the coupling of Love in Bath. It's a pretty obvious choice between the two. Inauthentic as it is, this performance is treasurable, and it brims over with the conductor's love. Every note of the score – what's left of it, that is – is filled with life and excitement. The soloists – a classic line-up for the era – sing superbly, and with reasonable sympathy for Handelian style. Stand-outs for me include Young's "Golden columns fair and bright" and Marshall's "Will the sun forget to streak," both in the latter half of the score. The Beecham Choral Society sings lustily, and without the crispness and accuracy we would expect from today's more authentic performances and recordings. Nevertheless, the sheer force of their sound is astonishing, and the separation of the double choirs across the two speakers creates dramatic effects. This is a new digital remastering. It cannot hide the roughness of an early stereo recording, but the sound does not get in the way of the performance. Handel arranged Love in Bath from several Handel scores. As the ballet The Great Elopement, this was Beecham doing to Handel what Rosenthal did to Offenbach in Gaïtè Parisienne. It's very entertaining – pour a glass of sherry for this one! – but even further removed from Handel than Beecham's Solomon. EMI Classics reissued this recording on CD about 15 years ago, and it is good to have it back, for those who didn't acquire it the first time. It is a perfect coupling for Solomon. The original sessions were spread across several dates in 1956, 1957, and 1959. (Raymond Tuttle)
