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Handel: Israel in Egypt

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composer
Handel, George Frideric
title

Handel: Israel in Egypt

performers
Le Concert Spirituel, Niquet, Hervé
catalogue number
Alpha 1176
description
Soloists: Myriam Leblanc; Lucie Edel; Lena Sutor-Wernich; Laurence Kislby; Andreas Wolf; Alexandre Baldo

Although Israel in Egypt was first performed on 4 April 1739 in tripartite form, Handel probably first composed this oratorio without a complete text. Hervé Niquet has chosen to record the version in two parts that Berlioz and the whole of the 19th century considered definitive, these being the Exodus and the Song of Moses. Produced just after the Covid pandemic, this recording also shows the joy of Le Concert Spirituel’s singers and instrumentalists at making music together again: Hervé Niquet says the final chorus "is a cry of happiness in unison" and sees an "almost palpable drama in these works: the two choruses face each other on either side of the orchestra and respond to each other in violent retaliations and monumental unisons. Their interweaving in diabolical movements is like a theatrical staging before our very eyes.”
format
CD x 1
label
Alpha
release date
11/3/25
EAN / barcode
3701624511763
PLN 79.00

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