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Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Belshazzar (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 147:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K&K | # KuK 67 | Recorded: 2004

Handel’s spectacular oratorio Belshazzar was composed in 1744, from a libretto by Charles Jennens that describes the fall of Babylon. Less successful in it’s day than the popular Italian opera, Belshazzar is a work on an imposing scale — dramatic, passionate, full of stirring choruses and solos, and a piece which Handel himself described as ‘very grand and uncommon’. The oratorio is full of invention, energy and drama with the Jewish, Babylonian Persian and Medes masses having their own distinctive musical styles that were juxtaposed to create a tense dramatic conflict. Composed in the same year as the splendid Hercules the two oratorios represent the peak of Handel’s dramatic writing. Belshazzar was a failure at the time of its first performance in 1745—contemporary reports speak of a disastrously bad performance—and the oratorio never gained popularity in Handel’s lifetime.

Jurgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Solomon (2004)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Jurgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Solomon (2004)

Jürgen Budday, Hannoversche Hofkapelle, Maulbronner Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Solomon (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 610 Mb | Total time: 70:19+75:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K&K | # KuK 73 | Recorded: 2003

The series of recordings of the Abbey of Maulbronn is prolific, and after a very good Messiah, we arrive now Solomon, another oratorio of Haendel. Solomon is a rather fixed work, a single scene, that of the famous judgment, presenting a little bit of "action", but the music, powerful and refined, is the most inspired Handel, and the virtuoso treatment of the choruses reveals a incomparable mastery.