Proms 2017 - Handel: Israel in Egypt (original 1739 version) [Christie, OAE]
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- William Christie directs the Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a historically-informed performance of Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt in its original 1739 form. Featuring sopranos Zoë Brookshaw and Rowan Pierce, countertenor Christopher Lowrey, tenor Jeremy Budd and bass-baritone Dingle Yandell as soloists. Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on August 1st 2017 as Prom 23.
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This is absolutely a masterpiece of Handel! What makes this performance amazing is that it is performed in its original version!
Handel's versatility was exceptional. The variety of choruses in this work is amazing, for example, polyphonic choruses of tradition from northern Germany, double 8-voice choruses, choruses that evoke the old renaissance polyphony, ceremonial and pastoral choruses, among others.
As a musicologist you may be right, but for me handels music is timeless and includes transcendent essence
The best choral work of all time, Handels greatest masterpiece and he has many many of those!. Wonderful performance.
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@@vincentkluwe-yorck8658 Messiah
wonderful, just wonderful!
I was there - brilliant performance!
Wonderfull! Noble performance.
Beautiful singing Rowan!
The tenor is terrific.
Wonderful performance.
Wonderful!
Beautiful songs
56:39 - a wonderful soprano aria!
I keep hoping they'll find the the long lost sequel to this, Israel in Lebanon. On a more serious note, I have to agree with almost everyone else. It's one smacking good performance.
Sublime
Очень глубокие произведения, океан гармоний.
Magnificent . Too many highlights to mention...just two of which to me are the excellent Christopher Lowrey (45 etc) and Handel's astonishingly atmospheric string orchestration ( 47 etc).
Outstanding performance! 👍🏼
23:10 yes!
+ ur pfp xD
Britain at her best. THX
The opening of this performance used the Ode on the Death of Queen Caroline.
just epic
And when the eye saw him it gave witness to him. And when the ear heard him then it blessed him. He put on righteousness. His judgement was a robe and a diadem.
Kindness, meekness and comfort were in his tongue.
they shall receive a glorious kingdom and a beautiful crown. The merciful goodness of the lord endureth forever.
The lord is my strength. He is become my salvation
28:00 which track is that? I can't seem to compare it to any in the modern version of Israel in Egypt
It is "But their name liveth evermore". If "Israel in Egypt" is performed in its original form like here, this track should always be played because it is also part of the "Ode on the death of Queen Caroline" which forms the basis of the original first part of "Israel in Egypt". You may for example find it in the brillant recording by Andrew Parrott and the Taverner Players.
Was the oratorio originally written and performed in English or German?
It was performed in English.
Haendel had lived for aperiod of his life in England.
beautiful performance! What's the title/name of the overture they played?
It's the introduction to Handel's Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline.
1:17:22 The Lord is a Man of war…
49:30 best work even writen
I really appreciate Händel's music. He is always overshadowed by contemporary composer Bach.
Es opacado no solo por la genialidad de Bach, sino más bien por la musicología alemana que dominó todo el siglo XIX y que ignoró no solo a Handel, sino a todo lo que se saliera de su area de influencia.
Give the lad Handel some credit FFS
Nikioko I don’t think he is overshadowed by Bach at all. He is very popular, just different styles. and I think his choral and religious music is better than Bach, vice versa for instrumental and chamber music..
Funny joke
@@ruperttmls7985Tal vez la musicología alemana consideraba a Handel un compositor inglés, ensalzando al alemán de pura cepa, Bach, que nunca en su vida abandonó su patria chica, Sajonia.
There is a bass duet from 1:18:10. Who sings beside Dingle Yandell? Or is he ventriloquist?
The bass was Callum Thorpe.
Use of trombones pretty rare for that period.
Yes, Handel almost always used horns and trumpets in his works, but in Israel in Egypt and Saul he used 3 trombones. He also used them in Samson (march)
Some pretty fast galopping horses there...
all of them >>> drowned in the Red sea !
Rush, rush, rush! UNNERVING.
HUH??????
At first, thie piece is equal to 'the way of zion mours'
It is interesting ^Q^
It is because the original first part of the oratorio, called "Lamentation on the death of Joseph" is a reuse of the whole Ode "The ways of Zion do mourn". Just the text is slightly adapted to the fact that in "Israel in Egypt" a man and not a woman is mourned. Since for Handels contemporaries, the oratorio was too long, he tended to perform it without the first part. So it, also in most nowadays performances, begins with the beginning of the second part "Now there arose a new king over Egypt" after the introducing sinfonia. You can nontheless find also recordings with the original first part as performed here.
La grabación de Parrott y la de Christophers también incluyen la primera parte. Gardiner la omite.
1:20:05 this is gay~ oh this is gay~ oh this is gay~
What makes it "gay"? How is music "gay"? WTF???