Handel - Israel in Egypt | Alpha ALPHA1176

Handel - Israel in Egypt

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1176

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 31st October 2025

Contents

Artists

Myriam Leblanc (soprano)
Lucie Edel (soprano)
Lena Sutor-Wernich (contralto)
Laurence Kilsby (tenor)
Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone)
Alexandre Baldo (bass-baritone)
Le Concert Spirituel

Conductor

Herve Niquet

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Israel in Egypt, HWV54

Artists

Myriam Leblanc (soprano)
Lucie Edel (soprano)
Lena Sutor-Wernich (contralto)
Laurence Kilsby (tenor)
Andreas Wolf (bass-baritone)
Alexandre Baldo (bass-baritone)
Le Concert Spirituel

Conductor

Herve Niquet

About

Although Israel in Egypt was first performed on 4 April 1739 in tripartite form, Handel probably first composed this oratorio without a complete text. Hervé Niquet has chosen to record the version in two parts that Berlioz and the whole of the 19th century considered definitive, these being the Exodus and the Song of Moses. Produced just after the Covid pandemic, this recording also shows the joy of Le Concert Spirituel’s singers and instrumentalists at making music together again: Hervé Niquet says the final chorus "is a cry of happiness in unison" and sees an "almost palpable drama in these works: the two choruses face each other on either side of the orchestra and respond to each other in violent retaliations and monumental unisons. Their interweaving in diabolical movements is like a theatrical staging before our very eyes.”

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