English Arias

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HANDEL
English Arias
James Bowman (counter Tenor), Susan Gritton (soprano) The King'S Consort / Robert King

[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 8 December 2007

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'This beautiful collection of songs and duets from Handel oratorios finds the 52-year-old English countertenor in quite amazing form ... His voice remains phenomenally agile. Unmissable' (The Sunday Times)

'Un disco a la mayor gloria de Bowman' (Ritmo, Spain)

'Un disco admirable de todo punto' (Diario de Jerez, Spain)

'A noble and dignified recital' (Fanfare, USA)

'Un manjar' (La Voz de Galicia, Spain)

Tracks:

Yet can I hear that dulcet lay (from The Choice of Hercules) [3'59]
How can I stay, when love invites (from Esther) [3'02]
0 fairest of ten thousand fair * (from Saul) [3'11]
Great God! who, yet but darkly known (from Belshazzar) [3'28]
The raptur'd soul (from Theodora) [8'14]
Father of Heav'n (from Judas Maccabaeus) [7'24]
Overture to Esther (Andante - Larghetto - Allegro) [6'28]
O Lord, whose mercies numberless (from Saul) [3'30]
What though I trace each herb (from Solomon) [6'13]
Martial Symphony and Destructive War (from Belshazzar) [2'50]
Welcome as the dawn of day * (from Solomon) [3'33]
Kind Heaven, if virtue be thy care (from Theodora) [5'13]
Almighty pow'r (from Solomon) [2'45]
Tune your harps (from Haman and Mordecai) [5'06]