John Butt, Dunedin Consort - George Frideric Handel: Esther, Original Cannons Version 1720 (2012)
John Butt, Dunedin Consort - George Frideric Handel: Esther, Original Cannons Version 1720 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 525 Mb | Total time: 65:30+34:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | CKD 397 | Recorded: 2011
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 525 Mb | Total time: 65:30+34:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | CKD 397 | Recorded: 2011
With its 2012 release of Handel's Esther, the Dunedin Consort continues its admirable series of recordings of little known or recently reconstructed versions of Baroque oratorios, begun in 2006 with its award-winning Dublin version of Messiah. There have been other reconstructions of the early version of Esther, Handel's first English oratorio, but the impetus behind this one, "the first reconstructable version, 1720" comes from research published in 2010 by musicologist John H. Roberts that clarifies which music reflects Handel's intentions for a private 1720 performance at Cannons, the residence of James Bridges, who became Duke of Chandos, and which was added for its 1732 revival. Conductor John Butt leads a chorus of 11 (from which the eight soloists are drawn) and chamber orchestra, forces that reflect those available to Handel when he wrote the piece. The size of the performing group is one of the factors in creating the intimate effect of this performance, but not the only one. Butt leads an exceptionally supple account that heightens the personal aspects of the drama, and the chorus and soloists sing colorfully and with urgent expressiveness. Some of the soloists, particularly Susan Hamilton in the title role, have voices of relatively modest size, and those with larger voices such as James Gilchrist and bass Matthew Brook sing with the restraint appropriate to the size of the private setting for which Handel was writing.
Performer:
James Gilchrist (Habdonah - Assuerus)
Matthew Brook (Haman)
Ashley Turnell (Officer - 2nd Israelite)
Thomas Hobbs (1st Israelite)
Electra Lochhead (Israelite Boy)
Robin Blaze (Priest of the Israelites)
Susan Hamilton (Esther)
Nicholas Mulroy (Mordecai)
Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Esther, Original Cannons Version 1720
CD1:
01. Overture: I. Andante
02. II. Larghetto
03. III. Allegro
04. Act 1. Scene 1. Recitative: Tis greater far to spare, than to destroy
05. Scene 1. Air: Pluck root and branch from out the land
06. Scene 1. Recitative: Our souls with ardour glow
07. Scene 1. Chorus: Shall we the God of Israel fear?
08. Scene 2. Recitative: Now persecution shall lay by her iron rod
09. Scene 2. Air: Tune your harps to cheerful strains
10. Scene 2. Chorus: Shall we of servitude complain
11. Scene 2. Recitative: O God, who from the suckling's mouth
12. Scene 2. Air: Praise the Lord with cheerful noise
13. Scene 2. Chorus: Shall we of servitude complain
14. Scene 3. Recitative: How have our sins provok'd the Lord
15. Scene 3. Chorus: Ye sons of Israel mourn
16. Scene 3. Air: O Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide
17. Scene 3. Chorus: Ye sons of Israel mourn
18. Act 2. Scene 1. Recitative: Why sits that sorrow on thy brow?
19. Scene 1. Air: Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger
20. Scene 1. Recitative: I go before the King to stand
21. Scene 1. Air: Tears assist me, pity moving
22. Scene 1. Chorus: Save us, O Lord
23. Scene 2. Recitative: Who dares intrude into our presence without our leave?
24. Scene 2. Duet: Who calls my parting soul from death?
25. Scene 2. Air: O beauteous Queen, unclose those eyes?
26. Scene 2. Recitative: If I find favour in thy sight
27. Scene 2. Air: How can I stay, when love invites?
28. Scene 3. Recitative: With inward joy his visage glows
CD2:
01. Act 3. Scene 1. Air: Jehovah crown'd with glory bright
02. Scene 1. Chorus: He comes, He comes to end our woes
03. Scene 2. Recitative: Now, O Queen, they suit declare
04. Scene 2. Accompagnato: Turn not, O Queen, thy face away
05. Scene 2. Air: Flatt'ring tongue, no more I hear thee?
06. Scene 2. Recitative: Guards, seize the traitor, bear him hence!
07. Scene 2. Air: How art thou fall'n from thy height!
08. Scene 3. Chorus: The Lord our enemy has slain!
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John Butt, Dunedin Consort - George Frideric Handel: Esther, Original Cannons Version 1720 (2012)
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