Handel - The Great Oratorios - Box Set 41CDs

Label : Decca

Format : Flac track

Cover : No

Tracklist :

CD 1-2

Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV 47

Emma Kirkby (soprano), Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Ian Partridge (tenor), David Thomas (bass)

The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood

CD 3-4

Handel: Acis & Galatea, HWV 49

Martyn Hill (tenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Willard White (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 5-6

Handel: Esther, HWV 50a

David Thomas (bass), Andrew King (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Drew Minter (countertenor), Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)

Academy of Ancient Music, Westminster Cathedral Choir, Christopher Hogwood

CD 7-8

Handel: Athalia, HWV 52

Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), James Bowman (countertenor), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Aled Jones (treble)

Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of New College Oxford, Christopher Hogwood

CD 9-10

Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75

Nigel Robson (tenor), Donna Brown (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto)

English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 11-13

Handel: Saul, HWV 53

Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Philip Slane (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Donna Brown (soprano), Neil Mackie (tenor), Simon Oberst (bass), Richard Savage (bass)

English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 14-15

Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54

Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV258 'Zadok the Priest'

Handel: The King shall rejoice (Coronation Anthem No. 3, HWV 260)

Collin Patrick (alto), Nicolas Robertson (tenor), Philip Salmon (tenor), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Julian Clarkson (bass), Christopher Purves (bass), Jonathan Peter Kenny (alto), Michael Chance (countertenor), Donna Deam (soprano), Paul Tindall (tenor), Andrew Tusa (tenor)

English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 16-17

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56

Howard Crook (tenor), Michael Chance (alto), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Arleen Auger (soprano), John Tomlinson (bass)

The English Concert, The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock

CD 18-20

Handel: Samson, HWV 57

Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Lynda Russell, Lynne Dawson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Michael George, Jonathan Best

The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers

CD 21-23

Handel: Semele, HWV 58

Mark S. Doss (bass), Kathleen Battle (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Neil Mackie (tenor), Samuel Ramey (bass), John McCarthy (chorus master), Michael Chance (countertenor), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)

English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, John Nelson

CD 24-26

Handel: Hercules, HWV 60

David Daniels (alto), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Michel Maldonado (double bass), Yvon Repérant (harpsichord), Claire Giardelli (cello), Mirella Giardelli (organ), Richard Croft (tenor), Sébastian Rouland (chorus master), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Gidon Saks (bass), Marcos Pujol (bass)

Les Musiciens du Louvre, Chorus Of Les Musiciens Du Louvre, Marc Minkowski

CD 27-29

Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 31

Arleen Auger (soprano), James Bowman (contralto), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Catherine Robbin (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Richard Wistreich (bass), Nicolas Robertson (tenor), Nigel Short (alto), Julia Gooding (soprano)

The English Concert, The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock

CD 30-32

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63

Dame Janet Baker (contralto), Felicity Palmer (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Ryland Davies (tenor), Paul Esswood (countertenor), Christopher Keyte (bass)

English Chamber Orchestra, Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir, Charles Mackerras

CD 33-35

Handel: Solomon, HWV 67

Peter Harvey (baritone), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Inger Dam-Jensen (soprano), Alison Hagley (soprano), Susan Bickley (contralto), Susan Gritton (soprano)

Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh

CD 36-38

Handel: Theodora, HWV 68

Neal Davies (bass), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Susan Gritton (soprano), Susan Bickley (contralto), Angus Smith (tenor)

Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh

CD 39-41

Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70

Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Nigel Robson (tenor), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Michael Chance (countertenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ruth Holton (soprano)

English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner