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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Symphonia - Largo, Allegro, Largo, Minuet | |||
| 2. Recitative: Here In The Wilderness Of Paran | |||
| 3. Chorus: The Righteous Shall Be Had In Everlasting Remembrance | |||
| 4. Accompagnato: Have Mercy On Us, Lord | |||
| 5. Air: Food They Ask'd | |||
| 6. Recitative: No Doubt | |||
| 7. Air: The Lord, Our Guide | |||
| 8. Chorus: The Lord, Our Guide | |||
| 9. Recitative: How Hard The Woman's Fate | |||
| 10. Air: Free From Discord | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Accompagnato: Thrice Happy Sheep | |||
| 2. Air: Mind Eternal | |||
| 3. Recitative: Fly My Good Mistress | |||
| 4. Accompagnato: Fell Monster! | |||
| 5. Air: Fury In All Thy Terrors Rise | |||
| 6. Accompagnato: On Me, My Lord, On Me | |||
| 7. Air: Mercy, Thou Heavn'ly Cherub | |||
| 8. Accompagnato: Blessed Be The Lord | |||
| 9. Chorus: All Creatures Upon God Depend | |||
| 10. Interludes - Entree, Entree Des Songes Agreable, Entree Des Songes Funestes, Entree Des Songes Agreables Effrayees, Le Combat Des Songes Funestes Et Agreables | |||
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Nabal
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
with Linda Perillo, Knut Schoch, Stephan McLeod, Francine van der Heijden, Maya Boog
Conducted by Joachim Carlos Martini
An enjoyable glimpse into a long-defunct genre, Nabal is a pastiche oratorio (or pasticcio) first performed in 1764, some five years after Handel's death. The work was compiled from Handel's music by John Christopher Smith, son of Handel's principal copyist, who inherited the composer's scores in manuscript from his father. Continuing the Handel connection, the libretto is by his old collaborator, Thomas Morell.
The story is another in the then-popular tales from the Old Testament tradition, this time concerning Nabal, a wealthy but mean-spirited old buffer who spurns David when he is in exile from the court of Saul. Nabal's wife Abigail, however, pledges her loyalty to the future king; when Nabal gets wind of this he promptly dies, leaving Abigail free to become one of David's wives. The music is drawn from a broad and eclectic cross-section of operas, oratorios, anthems and cantatas, with the addition of recitatives attributed to Smith and some tantalising musical settings simply referred to in the booklet as "source unknown".
In this live concert recorded during June 2000 the five soloists, who share the arias pretty equally, all do good service. But the chorus lacks a little fire and could be more disciplined, and the same goes for the period-instrument Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra. Conductor Joachim Carlos Martini maintains a brisk pace that helps disguise some of the scrappy sections, however, and the result, if hardly essential, is a curiosity that seasoned Handelians will want to investigate. --Mark Walker
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