Handel & Laurence Cummings - Joshua (CD)

Handel: Joshua / Cummings, Dennis, Pokupic, Duske, Tarver, Handel / Cummings, Laurence, Release Date: 03/10/2015, Composer: George Frideric Handel, Performer: Tobias [Baritone Vocal] Berndt, Kenneth Tarver, Renata Pokupic, Anna Dennis, Conductor: Laurence Cummings, Orchestra/Ensemble: North German Radio Chorus, Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Number of Discs: 2. Joshua is one of four so-called 'victory' oratorios Handel composed in the late 1740s, which commemorate the defeat of the 1745-46 Jacobite Rebellion. It takes as it's subject matter the biblical story of Joshua, who roused his people to a sequence of divinely aided victories. The oratorio remained a favorite with English and continental audiences until well after Handel's death. This recording, taken from live performances, features a superb cast of soloists supported by the Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, conducted from the harpsichord by Laurence Cummings.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Introduction
2. Ye Sons of Israel, Ev'ry Tribe Attend
3. Behold, My Friends, What Vast Rewards Are Giv'n
4. O First in Wisdom, What Vast Rewards Are Giv'n
5. Matrons and Virgins, with Unwearied Pray'r
6. Oh! Who Can Tell, Oh! Who Can Hear
7. Caleb, Attend to All I Now Prescribe
8. To Long Posterity We Here Record
9. How Long Shall the Memory Last
10. While Kedron's Brook to Jordan's Stream
11. But, Who Is He? - Tremendous to Behold!
12. Awful, Pleasing Being Say
13. Joshua, I Come Commission'd from on High
14. Leader of Israel
15. To Give Command, Prerogative Is Thine
16. Haste, Haste Israel
17. The Lord Commands, and Joshua Leads
18. In These Blest Scenes
19. 'Tis Achsah's Voice!
20. Hail, Lovely Virgin of This Blissful Bow'r!
21. Hark! 'Tis the Linnet and the Thrush
22. O Achsah, Form'd for Ev'ry Chaste Delight
23. Our Limpid Streams with Freedom Flow
24. The Trumpet Calls; Now Jericho Shall Know
25. May All the Host of Heav'n Attend Him Round

Disc: 2

1. 'Tis Well Six Times the Lord Hath Been Obey'd
2. A Solemn March During the Circumvention of the Ark of the Covenant
3. Glory to God! - the Nations Tremble
4. The Walls Are Levell'd
5. See, the Raging Flames Arise
6. To Vanity and Earthly Pride
7. Let All the Seed of Abrah'm Now Prepare
8. Almighty Ruler of the Skies
9. Joshua, the Men Dispatch'd By Thee to Learn
10. How Soon Our Tow'ring Hopes Are Cross'd!
11. Whence This Dejection?
12. We with Redoubled Rage Return
13. Now Give the Army Breath; Let War a While
14. Heroes When with Glory Burning
15. Indulgent Heav'n Hath Heard My Virgin Pray'r
16. As Cheers the Sun the Tender Flow'r
17. Sure I'm Deceiv'd, with Sorrow I Behold
18. Nations, Who in Future Story
19. Brethren and Friends, What Joy This Scene Imparts
20. Flourish of Warlike Instruments
21. Thus Far Our Cause Is Favour'd By the Lord
22. Oh! Thou Bright Orb, Great Ruler of the Day
23. Hail! Mighty Joshua, Hail!
24. Happy, Oh Thrice Happy We
25. Caleb, for Holy Eleazer Send
26. Shall I in Mamre's Fertile Plain
27. For All These Mercies We Will Sing
28. O Caleb, Fear'd By Foes, By Friends Ador'd
29. Place Danger Around Me
30. Father of Mercy, Hear the Pray'r We Make
31. In Bloom of Youth, This Stripling Hath Achiev'd
32. See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes
33. See the Godlike Youth Advance! - See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes!
34. Welcome! My Son, My Othniel, Good and Great
35. Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre
36. While Life Shall Last
37. O Peerless Maid, with Beauty Blest
38. While Lawless Tyrants, with Ambition Blind
39. The Great Jehovah Is Our Awful Theme