Handel: Judas Maccabeus

Handel: Judas Maccabeus

Handel: Judas Maccabeus
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Performer: John Shirley-Quirk
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Conductor: Johannes Somary
Performer: Jean Temperley
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Heather Harper
Performer: Patricia Clark
Performer: Alexander Young
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Music Label: Musical Concepts
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Overture Largo-Allegro-Largo
  2. Chorus 'Mourn, Ye Afflicted Children'
  3. Israelite Man, Woman 'Well May Your Sorrows'
  4. Chorus 'For Zion, Lamentation Make'
  5. Israelite Man 'Not In Vain Is All This Storm'
  6. Israelite Woman 'Pious Orgies'
  7. Chorus 'O Father, Whose Mighty Power'
  8. Simon ' I Feel the Deity Within'
  9. Simon 'Arm, Arm, Ye Brave'
  10. Chorus 'We Come In Bright Array'
  11. Judas 'Tis, Well, My Friends'
  12. Judas 'Call Forth Thy Powers'
  13. Israelite Woman & Man (Duet) 'Come, Ever Smiling Liberty'
  14. Chorus 'Lead On, Lead On'
  15. Judas 'So Willed My Father'
  16. Chorus 'Disdainful Of Danger'
  17. Judas 'Ambition'
  18. Judas 'No Unhallowed Desire'
  19. Israelite Man 'Haste We, My Brethren'
  20. Chorus 'Hear Us, O Lord'
  21. Chorus 'Fallen Is the Foe'
  22. Soprano Duet, Chorus 'Zion Now Her Head Shall Raise'
  23. Israelite Woman 'Oh, Let Eternal Honours'
  24. Israelite Woman 'From Almighty Kings'
  25. Israelite Woman, Man, Chorus 'Hail, Hail, Judea'
  26. Judas 'Thanks To My Brethren'
  27. Judas 'How Vain Is Man'
Music CD 2
  1. Israelite Messenger 'Oh Judas, Oh My Brethren'
  2. Israelite Woman, Chorus 'Ah! Wretched Israel'
  3. Simon 'Be Comforted'
  4. Simon 'The Lord Worketh Wonders'
  5. Judas 'My Arms'
  6. Judas, Chorus 'Sound an Alarm'
  7. Chorus 'We Hear'
  8. Simon 'Enough! To Heaven We Leave the Rest'
  9. Simon 'With Pious Hearts'
  10. Israelite Man, Woman 'Ye Worshippers'
  11. Israelite Woman 'Wise Men, Flattering'
  12. Israelite Woman, Man (Duet) 'Oh! Never, Never Bow'
  13. Chorus 'We Never Will Bow Down'
  14. Israelite Man 'Father Of Heaven'
  15. Israelite Man 'See Yon Flames'
  16. Israelite Woman 'Oh Grant It'
  17. Israelite Woman 'So Shall the Lute'
  18. Israelite Messenger 'From Capharsalama'
  19. Chorus 'See the Conquering Hero'
  20. March
  21. Duet & Chorus 'Sing Unto God'
  22. Judas 'Sweet Flow the Strains'
  23. Judas 'With Honour, Let Desert'
  24. Eupolemus 'Peace To My Countrymen'
  25. Chorus 'To Our Great God'
  26. Israelite Woman 'Again To Earth
  27. Israelite Woman, Man (Duet) 'Oh Lovely Peace'
  28. Simon 'Rejoice, Oh Judah'
  29. Chorus 'Hallelujah-Amen'

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Free Music Review: An Old Friend in a Bargain Re-issue
Hit: 4 Stars

It is good to have Somary's Vanguard 30 something year old recording of Judas Maccabeus back in this Alto re-issue. Alexander Young is a wonderful title role hero with a nice, heroic heft to the voice. The rival performances on Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion don't measure up to the standard he sets in the role. Heather Harper, Helen Watts and Shirley-Quirk are also quite good. Orchestra and chorus are alert and precise.

Somary's conducting is perhaps a little leisurely and old fashioned sounding in comparison to today's tempo norms but the performance is well paced and stylish given the state of performance practice at the time.

The sound is well-remastered and at least as good as that of the Vanguard LPs (which I still own) without the surface clicks.

I prefer the sound of period instruments, so the rival (and very good) performance on Hyperion with Jamie McDougal in the title role, Emma Kirkby, Catherine Denley, Michael George (et al) conducted by Robert King is my first choice. The Harmonia Mundi set is routinely conducted and the title role is accurately sung, but without much heroim in evidence.

This set is worth the price as a memento of Alexander Young, one of the finest Handel tenors of the recent past.
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