Handel: Israel in Egypt

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.”

1: Symphony
2: Now There Arose a New King Over Egypt
3: And the Children of Israel Sighed
4: Then Sent He Moses
5: They Loathed to Drink of the River
6: Their Land Brought Forth Frogs
7: He Spake the Word
8: He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain
9: He Sent a Thick Darkness
10: He Smote All the First-born of Egypt
11: But As for His People
12: Egypt Was Glad When They Departed
13: He Rebuked the Red Sea
14: And Israel Saw That Great Work
15: Moses, and the Children of Israel
16: The Lord Is My Strength
17: He Is My God
18: The Lord Is a Man of War
19: The Depths Have Covered Them
20: Thy Right Hand
21: And With the Blast of Thy Nostrils
22: The Enemy Said
23: Thou Didst Blow With the Wind
24: Who Is Like Unto Thee
25: Thou in Thy Mercy
26: The People Shall Hear
27: Thou Shalt Bring Them In
28: The Lord Shall Reign
29: For the Horse of Pharoah
30: The Lord Shall Reign
31: And Miriam the Prophetess
32: Sing Ye to the Lord

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Conductor: Hervé Niquet

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Le Concert Spirituel

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