Handel* • Boog* • Perillo* • Hannigan* • Browner* • Schoch* • MacLeod, Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini – Tobit (Oratorio In Three Parts)

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Label:	Naxos – 8.570113-14
Series:	Baroque Choral
Format:	2 x CD
Country:	Canada
Released:	2007
Genre:	Classical
Style:	Baroque, Oratorio

Tracklist

	Part 1: The Ninevites	43:32
1-1	Ouverture	5:04
	Scene 1: A Ninevite And Chorus Of Ninevites
1-2	Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite)	0:15
1-3	Chorus: Hear Us, O Baal	1:53
	Scene 2: Tobit And Chorus Of Israelites
1-4	Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd Is Human Joy (Tobit)	0:51
1-5	Solo & Chorus: Hear From Thy Mercies Seat (Tobit)	4:59
	Scene 3: Anna, Tobit, Tobias And Chorus Of Israelites
1-6	Recitative: The Lord Hath Heard My Pray'r (Tobit)	0:27
1-7	Air: Will God, Whose Mercies Ever Flow (Tobias)	2:18
1-8	Recitative: But Say, My Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit)	0:43
1-9	Duet: To Steal A Grave (Anna, Tobit)	4:42
1-10	Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias)	0:26
1-11	Air: Boistrous Winds And Billows Rolling (Tobias)	7:40
1-12	Chorus: Tyrants May A While Presume	2:51
	Scene 4: Sarah And Raguel
1-13	Sinfonia	0:49
1-14	Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah)	1:18
1-15	Air: Paid Be My Adoration (Sarah)	2:36
1-16	Recitative: Be Comforted, My Daughter (Raguel)	0:38
1-17	Air: The Lord Sends His Thunders (Raguel)	3:11
1-18	Chorus: All Pow'r In Heav'n Above Or Earth Beneath	2:51
	Part 2	32:49
	Scene 1: Tobit
1-19	Sinfonia	0:44
1-20	Accompagnato: Alas! To What Variety Of Ills (Tobit)	1:55
1-21	Air: In Great Jehovah (Tobit)	1:25
	Scene 2: Tobit, Tobias And Azarias (Raphael)
1-22	Recitative: Happy In Thee, My Son (Tobit)	0:39
1-23	Air: Descend Kind Pity (Azarias)	8:57
1-24	Chorus: Impartial Heav'n	3:04
	Scene 3: A Ninevite And Chorus Of Ninevites
1-25	Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt And Misery (A Ninevite)	0:45
1-26	Chorus: O Baal, Monarch Of The Skies!	1:51
1-27	Ritornello	0:32
	Scene 4: Anna And Tobit
1-28	Recitative: Pain'd As I Am (Tobit, Anna)	0:51
1-29	Air: Thy Pleasing Face (Anna)	7:42
1-30	Recitative: O, Though Bright Sun (Anna)	0:33
1-31	Air: With Darkness Deep, As Is My Woe (Anna)	2:38
	Scene 5: Tobias And Azarias
1-32	Sinfonia	0:21
1-33	Recitative: What Caution Is Too Great (Tobit, Azarias)	0:52
	Part 2 (Cont.)	34:39
2-1	Air: Thou, God Most High (Azarias)	5:00
2-2	Duet: Cease Thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias)	5:43
2-3	Chorus: The Clouded Scene Begins To Clear	3:49
	Scene 6: Sarah And Raguel
2-4	Sinfonia	3:09
2-5	Recitative: How Happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah)	0:56
2-6	Air: No Nobler Joys Aspiring (Sarah)	4:54
	Scene 7: Tobias And Azarias
2-7	Recitative: O Azarias, I Must Freely Own (Tobias, Azarias)	0:40
	Scene 8: Raguel, Sarah, Tobias, Azarias And Chorus Of Israelites
2-8	Recitative: The Gratefull Tribute Of Our Thanks (Raguel)	0:20
2-9	Air: Let Songs Of Varied Measure (Raguel)	4:26
2-10	Chorus: Now Love, That Everlasting Joy	2:28
2-11	Chorus: Happy, Happy Shall They Be	3:14
	Part 3	45:21
	Scene 1: Tobit And Chorus Of Isralites
2-12	Sinfonia	0:44
2-13	Accompagnato: Still Am I Persecuted (Tobit)	0:37
2-14	Air: Cease Your Pride, Deluded Mortals (Tobit)	2:20
2-15	Chorus: Tremble, Guilt, For Though Shalt Find	2:42
	Scene 2: Tobit And Anna
1-16	Sinfonia	1:40
2-17	Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit)	0:18
2-18	Accompagnato: Henceforth Through All Changing Scenes Of Life (Anna)	0:32
2-19	Air: Ma Son, How Happy In Thy Sweet Return (Anna)	4:03
2-20	Chorus: Let None Despair	3:29
	Scene 3: Tobit, Anna, Tobias, Raphael, Raguel, Sarah And Chorus Of Israelites
2-21	Accompagnato And Recitative: Blest Be The God Of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel)	1:25
2-22	Air: May True Joy (Raguel)	4:06
2-23	Terzetto: More Cheerful Appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah)	5:03
2-24	Air: Watchfull Angels (Sarah)	1:32
2-25	Recitative: O King Of Kings (Sarah)	0:29
2-26	Air: Allelujah (Sarah)	3:21
2-27	Chorus: Swift Our Numbers	2:39
2-28	Recitative: 'Tis Well (Raphael)	0:21
2-29	Accompagnato: O Niniveh! (Raphael)	1:25
2-30	Air: In Jehovah's Awful Sight (Raphael)	2:02
2-31	Symphony	2:38
2-32	Recitative: Saw Ye The Radiant Streams Of Light (Tobit)	0:39
2-33	Chorus And Solo: Ye Servants Of Th'eternal King	3:17

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Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
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Recorded At – Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany

Credits

Bass Vocals – Stephan MacLeod
Choir – Junge Kantorei
Compiled By – John Christopher Smith
Composed By – Handel*
Conductor – Joachim Carlos Martini
Edited By – Joachim Carlos Martini
Liner Notes [Booklet Notes] – Keith Anderson (6)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Alison Browner
Orchestra – Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra*
Painting [Cover Painting] – Pierre Parrocel
Soprano Vocals – Barbara Hannigan, Linda Perillo, Maya Boog
Tenor Vocals – Knut Schoch

Notes

Recorded live at Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany, on 3rd June, 2001

This recording has been generously supported by Lafarge GmbH, Oberursel

Cover picture: "The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah, 1733 by Pierre Parrocel (1670-1739)
(Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille France / Bridgeman Art Library)

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Anna ................ Maya Boog, Soprano
Sarah................ Linda Perillo, Soprano
Azarias / Raphael ... Barbara Hannigan, Soprano
Tobias .............. Alison Browner, Mezzo-Soprano
Tobit ............... Knut Schoch, Tenor
Raguel .............. Stephan MacLeod, Bass