Paul Goodwin, Kammerorchester Basel, Vocalconsort Berlin - Handel: Athalia (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 657 Mb | Total time: 75:57+69:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697723172 | Recorded: 2009
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 657 Mb | Total time: 75:57+69:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697723172 | Recorded: 2009
Athalia, first performed in Oxford in 1733 was enthusiastically received, bar the comment by a crusty academic complaining of ‘Handel and (his lowsy Crew) a great number of forreign fidlers’. All current recordings are of this version, perhaps explaining why Paul Goodwin chose Handel’s London revival from 1735.
There were many changes, few of them improvements. Joad was sung by the castrato Carestini, hugely admired but seemingly unwilling to sing in English. His recitatives are mainly in English but his arias are in Italian, and his wife Josabeth briefly proves bi-lingual in a duet with him. A remnant of a discarded casting even has a bass Joad singing in a duet – evidence of Handel’s careless editing.
The final rejoicing is halted for Handel to play an organ concerto before a choral ‘Allejuia’. Such oddities maul the drama, yet it’s strengthened by the integration of the chorus, who provides a da capo repeat to Joad’s first aria, and assumes three successive characters– Virgins, Priests and Levites – and finally ‘Grand Chorus’, to end Part II.
Goodwin’s singers are excellent. Geraldine McGreevy (Athalia) is a powerful tyrant, her final ‘aria di agilità’ an impressive display of bitter disillusion. Nuria Rial makes an alluring Josabeth. The American countertenor, Lawrence Zazzo (Joad), ranges from virtuosity, almost every note on target, (‘Bianco giglio’), to seamless legato (‘Cor fedele’).–George Pratt
Performer:
Athalia - Geraldine McGreevy
Josabeth - Nuria Rial
Joad - Lawrence Zazzo
Joas - Aaron Machler
Mathan - Charles Daniels
Abner - David Wilson-Johnson
Joad 2 - Clemens Heidrich
Daniel Moult, orgel
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kammerorchester Basel
Leiter - Paul Goodwin
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. Part I. Ouverture
02. Gigue
03. Air (Josabeth): Blooming Virgins
04. Solo (Josabeth) & Chorus: Tyrants would in impious throngs
05. Accompagnato (Joad): Oh Judah, Judah! chosen seed!
06. Solo (Joad) & Chorus: O Lord, whom we adore - Here from thy mercy
07. Accompagnato (Athalia): What scenes of horror
08. Recitativo (Athalia, Mathan): Oh Nathan, aid me to control
09. Accompagnato (Athalia): O, Athalia, tremble at thy fate
10. Air (Mathan): The gods, who chosen blessings seed
11. Recitativo (Athalia): Her form at this began to fate
12. Chorus: Cheer her, O Baal
13. Recitativo (Athalia, Mathan): Amidst these horrors
14. Air (Mathan): Gentles airs, melodious strains!
15. Air (Athalia): Softest sounds no more can ease me
16. Recitativo (Mathan, Abner): Swift to the temple
17. Chorus: The traitor if you there descry
18. 1735/I. Aria (Joad): Bianco giglio
19. Recitativo (Joad, Josabeth, Abner): My Josabeth!
20. Air (Josabeth): Faithful cares in vain extended
21. Recitativo (Abner): O cease, fair princess
22. 1735/II. Aria (Joad): L'innocenza
23. Duett & Chorus (Joad, Abner): When storms the proud
24. Chorus: Allelujah
25. Part II. Chorus & Solo (Joad): The mighty pow'r, in whom we trust
26. Air (Josabeth): Through the land so lovely blooming
27. Recitativo (Abner, Joad): Ah! Were this land
28. Air (Abner): Ah, canst thou but prove me!
CD2:
01. Recitativo (Athalia, Josabeth, Joas): Confusion to my thoughts!
02. Air (Joad): Will God, whose mercies ever flow
03. Recitativo (Athalia, Joas): This is my intention
04. Air (Mathan): My vengeance awakes me
05. Duett (Josabeth, Joas): My spirits fail
06. Duett (Joas, Josabeth): Cangia in gioia
07. Recitativo (Abner): Joad, ere day has ended half this race
08. 1735/III. Aria (Joad): Quella fama ch'or ti chiama
09. Chorus: The clouded scene begins to clear
10. Part III. Accompagnato (Joad): What sacred horros shake my breast!
11. Chorus: Unfold, great seer
12. Accompagnato (Joad): Chi ha la pietate
13. 1735/IV. Aria (Joad): Cor fedele
14. Recitativo (Joad, Joas, Josabeth): Eliakim! My father
15. Chorus: With firm united hearts we stand
16. Recitativo (Mathan, Josabeth): Oh princess, I approach thee
17. Air (Josabeth): Soothing tyrant, falsely smiling!
18. Recitativo (Joad, Mathan): Apostate priest
19. Recitativo (Joad, Athalia): O Bold seducer
20. Chorus & Solo (Joad): Around let acclamations ring
21. Recitativo (Athalia, Mathan): Where I am?
22. Air (Mathan): Hark! Hark! - His thunders round me roll
23. Recitativo (Joad, Athalia): Yes, thy apostate thou shall fall
24. Air (Athalia): I see all hopes, all succors fail
25. Recitativo (Joad, Josabeth): Now, Josabeth
26. 1735/V. Aria (Joad): Angelico splendor
27. Recitativo (Abner): Rejoice, oh Judah
28. 1735/VI. Orgelkonzert: I. Allegro
29. II. Andante
30. III. Adagio
31. IV. Allegro
32. Chorus: Alleluja
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