Essential Handel | 
| Creators: Michael George, George Frederick Handel, Robert King, James Bowman, Robin Blaze, Alexandra Bellamy, King's Consort, Carolyn Sampson, Claron Mcfadden, Emma Kirkby, Lorna Anderson, Lynne Dawson, Susan Gritton, Yvonne Kenny, James Gilchrist, Paul Agnew, Crispian Steele-perkins
Label: Hyperion UK
Category: Music
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 190394
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 034571100289
EAN: 0034571100289
ASIN: B000A7XJQA
Release Date: October 11, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Overture | | • | Welcome as the dawn of day | | • | The trumpet's loud clangour | | • | Un puro ardor | | • | Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay | | • | Allegro | | • | As steals the morn upon the night | | • | La Rejouissance | | • | In Jehovah's Awful Sight | | • | See, the conqu'ring hero comes! | | • | Eternal Source of Light Divine | | • | Largo | | • | Or let the merry bells ring round | | • | Solemn march during the circumvention of the ark | | • | Hark! hark! He strikes the golden lyre | | • | To God, our strength, sing loud and clear | | • | Oh liberty, thou choicest treasure | | • | Let the bright seraphim | | • | Kings shall be thy nursing fathers |
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| Customer Reviews:
Bargain-priced first-class overview May 1, 2006
Gontroppo (Bathurst, NSW Australia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great CD for beginners, but also for those who already have a few Handel CDs. So often samplers have all the favourites which you already have on other CDs. But this set has a few well-known tracks, such as Zadok the Priest, See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes and La Rejouissance from The Fireworks, but mostly wonderful music, superbly played which is not extremely well known.
Highly recommended.
Robert King deserves to be famous in America, too July 22, 2006
Santa Fe listener
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Robert King and his King's Consort have made dozens of recordings, establishing themselves in London as a pre-eminent Baroque group. They benefit greatly from King's unflagging energy and musical insight. Twenty years ago you couldn't say that the period movement had attracted the best musicians and conductors. That situation has changed radically, and this sampler CD from King's complete recordings exhibits first-class playing throughout. Baroque singing is at a high level, too, but you couldn't say that his singers are of Met or Royal Opera House quality--even so, they are very good.
As an indicator of the strides that period performance has made, this is an eye-opening CD, but it's also engaging for the general listener, like me, who only dips into Handel's many, many operas and oratorios occasionally.
P.S. _ King's widely publicized conviction for pedophilia made it difficult to keep this positive review in print, but in the end I did. I mean no offense, but purely as music-making this is a wonderful disc.
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