‘händeliade’ - A HÄNDEL FESTIVAL concert

April 2024 · MADRID · STUTTGART

PART I

FROM HARMONY
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76 [16’]

Recitative (Tenor): From harmony, from heavenly harmony

Chorus: From harmony, from heavenly harmony

Recitative (Soprano): But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher

Chorus with Soprano: As from the power of sacred lays

ABOUT HEROES
Joshua, HWV 64 [7’]

Recitative (Joshua): Caleb, attend

Chorus with Tenor (Joshua): To long posterity

Recitative (Joshua): To give command

Aria (Joshua): Haste, Israel, haste

Chorus: The Lord commands

Samson HWV 57 [5’]

Recitative (Samson): Oh loss of sight!

Aria (Samson): Total Eclipse

Judas Maccabaeus HWV 63 [12’]

Chorus: For Sion lamentation

Recitative (Israelitish Woman): To Heaven's Almighty King we kneel

Aria (Israelitish Woman): O Liberty

Chorus: Fall’n is the foe

Duet with Chorus: Sing unto God

[TOTAL PART I : approx. 40’ + 6-7’ Pause -on the place itself-]
 PART II

FROM LOVE

Esther HWV 50a, 50b [13’]

Recitative (First Israelite): Now persecution (HWV 50a)

Aria (Israelite Woman): Tune your harps (HWV 50b)

Chorus: Save us, O Lord (HWV 50a)

Recitative (Assuerus and Esther): Who dares intrude (HWV 50a)

Duet (Esther and Assuerus): Who calls my parting soul (HWV 50a)

Chorus: Upon thy right hand (HWV 50b)

Acis and Galatea HWV 49 [12’]

Aria (Acis): Where Shall I Seek The Charming Fair

Accompagnato (Acis): Help, Galatea

Chorus: Mourn, all ye muses!

Aria (Galatea) and Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan

Solomon HWV 67 [19’]

Symphonie, The Arrival of The Queen of Sheba

Recitative (Solomon’s Queen): When thou art absent

Aria (Solomon’s Queen): With thee th’unshelter’d moor

Recitative (Zadok): Search round the world

Chorus: May no rash intruder ("Nightingale Chorus")

Recitative (Queen of Sheba): May peace in Salem

Aria (Queen of Sheba): Will the sun forget to streak

Chorus: The name of the wicked

[TOTAL PART II : 44’ + 6-7’ Pause -on the place itself-]

 PART III

ROYAL CEREMONIES

Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351 [2’]

La Réjouissance

Coronation Anthems [8’]

Chorus: Zadok, the priest (HWV 258)

Chorus: Let Justice and Judgement (HWV 259)

FROM MERCIFULNESS AND COMPASSION

Theodora HWV 68 [17’]

Recitative (Septimius): I know thy Virtues

Aria (Septimius): Descend, kind Pity

Chorus (Chorus of Christians): Come, Mighty Father

Accompagnato (Theodora): Oh worse than death indeed!

Aria (Theodora): Angels ever bright and fair

Recitative (Irene): Ere this, their doom is past

Chorus (Chorus of Christians): O Love divine

The Foundling Hospital Anthem HWV 268 [4’]

Soloists and Chorus: The Charitable shall be had in everlasting remembrance

Messiah HWV 56 [4’]

Chorus: Hallelujah!

[TOTAL PART III : 35’]

[TOTAL TIME WITH PAUSES: 133’ -2h 13’-]

ODE FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY
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JUDAS MACCABAEUS