Handel: Solomon / Gardiner, Watkinson, Argenta, Hendricks

"Solomon" (Oratorio In Three Acts) 1-1 Overture 5:09 Act I Scene 1 1-2 "Your Harps And Cymbals" (Chorus) 3:18 1-3 "Praise Ye The Lord" (A Levite) 4:46 1-4 "With Pious Heart" (Chorus) 4:40 1-5 "Almighty Power" (Solomon) 2:58 1-6 "Imperial Solomon" - "Sacred Rapture" (Zadok) 4:49 1-7 "Throughout The Land" (Chorus) 3:30 1-8 "Bless'd Be The Lord" - "What Though I Trace" (Solomon) 7:00 Scene 2 1-9 "And See My Queen" (Solomon) 0:44 1-10 "Bless'd The Day" (Queen) 4:45 1-11 "Thou Fair Inhabitant" (Solomon) "Welcome As The Dawn Of Day" (Solomon, Queen) 3:58 1-12 "My Booming Fair" - "Haste, Haste" (Solomon) 3:22 1-13 "When Thou Art Absent" - "With Thee Th'Unshelter'd Moor I'd Tread" (Queen) 2:21 1-14 "May No Rash Intruder" (Chorus) 3:16 Act II Scene 1 1-15 "From The Censer" (Chorus) 5:10 1-16 "Prais'd Be The Lord" - "When The Sun" (Solomon) 5:10 1-17 "Great Prince" - "Thrice Bless'd" - (Levite) 3:41 Scene 2 2-1 "My Sovereign Liege" (Attendant, Solomon) 1:53 Scene 3 2-2 "Thou Son Of David" (1st Harlot) - "Words Are Weak" (1st & 2nd Harlot, Solomon) 5:35 2-3 "What Says The Other" (Solomon, 2nd Harlot) - "Thy Sentence, Great King" (2nd Harlot) 3:28 2-4 "Withhold, Withhold The Executing Hand" - "Can I See My Infant Gor'd" (1st Harlot) 4:23 2-5 "Israel, Attend" (Solomon) 1:19 2-6 "Thrice Bless'd Be The King" (1st Harlot, Solomon) 3:58 2-7 "From The East Unto The West" (Chorus) 2:29 2-8 "No More Shall Armed Bands" - "Beneath The Vine" (1st Harlot) 6:23 2-9 "Swell, Swell The Full Chorus" (Chorus) 2:43 Act III 2-10 The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba 3:01 2-11 "From Arabia's Spicy Shores" (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon) 1:25 2-12 "Sweep, Sweep The String" - "Music, Spread Thy Voice" (Solomon, Chorus) 3:35 2-13 "Now A Diff'rent Measure" - "Shake The Dome" (Solomon, Chorus) 1:47 2-14 "Then At Once From Rage" (Solomon) - "Draw The Tear From Hopeless Love" (Chorus) 3:20 2-15 "Next The Tortur'd Soul" - "Thus Rolling Surges Rise" (Solomon, Chorus) 3:40 2-16 "Thy Harmony's Divine" (Queen Of Sheba) 0:59 2-17 "Thrice Happy King" - "Golden Columns" (Zadok) 3:58 2-18 "May Peace In Salem Ever Dwell" - "Will The Sun Forget To Streak" (Queen Of Sheba) 5:54 2-19 "Adieu, Fair Queen" (Solomon) - "Ev'ry Joy That Wisdom Knows" (Queen Of Sheba, Solomon) 3:01 2-20 "Praise The Lord" (Chorus) 4:39 Copyright © – Phonogram International B.V. Manufactured By – Polygram, Hanover, West Germany Bass Vocals [A Levite] – Stephen Varcoe Choir – The Monteverdi Choir Composed By – George Frideric Handel* Conductor – John Eliot Gardiner Ensemble – The English Baroque Soloists Mezzo-soprano Vocals [2nd Harlot] – Della Jones Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Solomon] – Carolyn Watkinson Soprano Vocals [1st Harlot] – Joan Rodgers Soprano Vocals [Queen Of Sheba] – Barbara Hendricks Soprano Vocals [Solomon's Queen] – Nancy Argenta Tenor Vocals [Zadok] – Anthony Rolfe Johnson © Phonogram International B.V. Printed in West Germany Made in West Germany CD is manufactured by Polygram in Hanover, West Germany 106 page booklet with libretto in German, English and French. Recorded in collaboration with West German Radio, Cologne, on the occasion of the 1984 Goettingen Handel Festival. Recorded: London, 6/1984 Total playing time: 136:20