Utwory na płycie:

• Overture
• Chorus: Mourn, ye afflicted children
• Recitative: Well may your sorrows
• Duet: From this dread scene
• Chorus: For Sion lamentation make
• Recitative: Not vain is all this storm of grief
• Air: Pious orgies
• Chorus: Oh Father, whose Almighty power
• Recitative: I feel, I feel the Deity within
• Air: Arm, arm, ye brave - Chorus: We come, we come, in bright array
• Recitative: 'Tis well, my friends
• Air: Call forth thy powers
• Recitative: To Heaven's Almighty King we kneel
• Air: Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure
• Air: Come, ever-smiling liberty
• Recitative: Oh Judas, may these noble views inspire - Air: 'Tis liberty
• Duet: Come, ever-smiling liberty
• Chorus: Lead on, lead on
• Recitative: So willed my father, now at rest - Accompanied recitative: We come! O see thy sonns prepare
• Chorus: Disdainful of danger
• Recitative: Ambition! If ever honour was thine aim - Air: No unhallowed desire
• Chorus: Hear us, oh Lord
• Chorus: Fallen is the foe
• Recitative: Victorious hero
• Air: So rapid thy course is
• Recitative: Oh let eternal honours crown his name
• Air: From mighty kings he took the spoil
• Duet: Hail, hail, Judea, happy land - Chorus: Hail, hail, Judea, happy land
• Recitative: Thanks to my brethren
• Air: How vain is man, who boasts in fight
• Recitative: Oh Judas! oh my brethren
• Air: Ah! wretched Israel - Chorus: Ah! wretched Israel
• Recitative: Be comforted
• Air: The Lord worketh wonders
• Recitative: My arms! against this Gorgias will I go
• Air: Sound an alarm - Chorus: We hear
• Recitative: Enough! to Heaven we leave the rest
• Air: With pious hearts
• Recitative: Ye worshippers of God
• Recitative: No more in Sion
• Duet: Oh! never, never bow we down - Chorus: We never, never will bow down
• Air: Father of Heaven
• Accompanied recitative: See, see yon flames
• Recitative: Oh grant it, Heaven
• Air: So shall the lute and harp awake
• Recitative: From Capharsalama
• Recitative: Yet more
• March
• Chorus: Sing unto God
• Recitative: Sweet flow the strains
• Air: With honour let desert be crowned
• Recitative: Peace to my countrymen
• Chorus: To our great God
• Recitative: Again to earth let gratitude descend
• Duet: Oh lovely peace
• Air: Rejoice, oh Judah
• Chorus: Hallelujah! Amen

Judas Maccabaeus
Oratorio in three Acts, HWV 63
Libretto by Thomas Morell
First performance - 1 April 1747, Covent Garden Theatre, London
Revised version 1747

Judas Maccabäus is one of Handel’s most impressive and successful works. More than 50 performances took place in Handel’s lifetime. The integration of the libretto with the conflict between the Scottish Jacobites under the leadership of the catholic Stuart pretender, Charles Edward, and the royalist government troops played a crucial role in this. The original libretto tells the story of the struggle of the Jews against the rule of the Seleucids. Handel portrays the plot with colourful arias, touching laments, and exaltant triumph choruses.

The present live recording is a production of the 2018 International Handel Festival in Göttingen, highly praised by the critics and the audience. With Laurence Cummings, the Festival's Artistic Director, a renowned Handel specialist stands at the helm of the Göttingen Festival Orchestra, assisted by an excellent vocal cast and the NDR Choir.

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Live recording: 10 May 2018, Stadthalle Göttingen (Germany).