Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell Handel Israel in Egypt, Hwv 54 (2023)

Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (2023)

Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 357 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 179 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:14:11
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Avie Records

Apollo's Fire's founder and director Jeannette Sorrell is "a masterful musical storyteller" (Seen and Heard). The Maestra and her acclaimed baroque orchestra add to their distinguished AVIE discography that includes Handel's Dixit Dominus and Messiah, with her own adaptation of the composer's oratorio Israel in Egypt.
Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 74:11 minutes | 1,32 GB
Classical, Sacred, Oratorio | Label: Avie Records, Official Digital Download

Apollo's Fire's founder and director Jeannette Sorrell is "a masterful musical storyteller" (Seen and Heard). The Maestra and her acclaimed baroque orchestra add to their distinguished AVIE discography that includes Handel's Dixit Dominus and Messiah, with her own adaptation of the composer's oratorio Israel in Egypt.
The King's Consort & Robert King - Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (2016)

The King's Consort & Robert King - Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (2016)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 430 MB | Digital Booklet | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 205 MB | 01:22:04
Classical, Vocal | Label: VIVAT

Latest release on VIVAT brings Mendelssohn’s astonishing reconstruction of Handel’s great oratorio Israel in Egypt. Mendelssohn’s 1833 Düsseldorf performance has been painstakingly reconstructed from fragments and sources across Europe: the large and colourful orchestra, playing nineteenth-century instruments, produces vivid new sonorities, and the double choir sings magnificently. Listeners familiar with Handel’s 1739 version will also find new numbers, significant changes to the order of movements and very different orchestrations. The work starts with a thrilling, pure-Mendelssohn overture, mixing life and energy with moments of exquisitely shifting instrumental colours. There is fine solo singing from solo sopranos Lydia Teuscher and Julia Doyle, alto Hilary Summers, tenor Benjamin Hulett, and bass Roderick Williams: Robert King and The King’s Consort are on top form.
Orchester der Deutschen Händel-Solisten, Chamber Choir of Europe, Anthony Bramall - Handel: Israel in Egypt (2006)

Orchester der Deutschen Händel-Solisten, Chamber Choir of Europe, Anthony Bramall - Handel: Israel in Egypt (2006)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 585 MB | 01:47:57
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics

Great chorus, weak soloists: thank heaven Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, like his oratorio Messiah, is more a work for chorus with orchestra and vocal soloists than, like most of his other oratorios, a work for vocal soloists with orchestra and chorus. From a choral point of view, this 2006 recording by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe is indeed superlative. The international chorus sings with surprising unanimity, amazing cohesion, and impressive diction.
Roy Goodman, Le Concert Lorrain, Nederlands Kamerkoor - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2014)

Roy Goodman, Le Concert Lorrain, Nederlands Kamerkoor - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 626 Mb | Total time: 75:33+51:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Etcetera ‎| # KTC1517 | Recorded: 2014

Israel in Egypt (HWV 54 ) is without a doubt one of Georg Friedrich Handel’s most captivating oratorios. One that has an unusual role set apart for the choir. The biblical story of Israel’s crossing through the desert to the Promised Land and the plagues God spills over Egypt are sublimely captured in Handel’s score from 1738.
Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir & Players - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2003)

Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir & Players - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 595 Mb | Total time: 68:38+66:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 5 62155 2 | Recorded: 1989

Using some of the finest early-music soloists of the day, Parrott and his forces give posterity a recording that welds tightly focused emotion to a laudable and uncommon feel for the music. The soloists produce appropriately light but well-focused tone and display an ability to negotiate the intricacies of Handel’s notes evenly and with an exceptional grasp of the phrasing required for successful performance. The choral lines are carefully etched and meticulously balanced, resulting in a superlative overall sound that—in spite of the small choir—is rich and capable of exceeding power when required.

The King's Consort, Robert King - Handel: Israel in Egypt (2016)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 13, 2024
The King's Consort, Robert King - Handel: Israel in Egypt (2016)

The King's Consort, Robert King - Handel: Israel in Egypt (2016)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:22:10 | 520 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Vivat Music | Catalog: VIVAT 111

Latest release on VIVAT brings Mendelssohn’s astonishing reconstruction of Handel’s great oratorio Israel in Egypt. Mendelssohn’s 1833 Düsseldorf performance has been painstakingly reconstructed from fragments and sources across Europe: the large and colourful orchestra, playing nineteenth-century instruments, produces vivid new sonorities, and the double choir sings magnificently. Listeners familiar with Handel’s 1739 version will also find new numbers, significant changes to the order of movements and very different orchestrations.
Peter Dijkstra, Concerto Koln, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2010)

Peter Dijkstra, Concerto Köln, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks - George Frideric Handel: Israel in Egypt (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 562 Mb | Total time: 65:52+40:13 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BR-KLASSIK | # 900501 | Recorded: 2008

Georg Friedrich Händels großes Chor-Oratorium "Israel in Egypt" ist das wertvollste Geschenk, das der Komponist der Chormusik machen konnte: Der Chor fungiert als Protagonist in diesem klangmächtigen Werk, das in bildhafter Dramatik vom alttestamentarischen Exodus erzählt. Viel zu lange war das Oratorium nach seiner wenig erfolgreichen Uraufführung im Londoner King’s Theatre in Vergessenheit geraten, bis es im Zuge der Barock-Renaissance unter Felix Mendelssohn im 19. Jahrhundert wiederentdeckt wurde.

Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Messiah (2010)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 6, 2023
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Messiah (2010)

Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell - Handel: Messiah (2010)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 752 MB | 02:11:41
Genre: Classical | Label: Avie

In 1996, Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland-based Baroque orchestra that she founded, made a very fine recording of Messiah, but this 2010 album surpasses it in every way. Sorrell's treatment of the slow opening of the Sinfonia tips her hand about what her approach will be to the oratorio as a whole. Rather than playing the rhythm dotted, as written (ponderous) or double dotted, as it's usually interpreted by early music specialists (rigid and severe), she splits the difference and plays it as a triplet, which gives it a lovely dancing lilt. It's indicative of the exceptionally light touch and punchy rhythmic vitality she employs throughout.
John Eliot Gardiner - Handel: Water Music; Concerti grossi Op.3; Israel in Egypt; The Ways of Zion Do Mourn; Semele (2007)

John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloisits, Monteverdi Choir - Handel: Water Music; Concerti grossi Op.3; Israel in Egypt; The Ways of Zion Do Mourn; Semele [6CDs] (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1.8 Gb | Total time: 06:52:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2564 69838-5 | Recorded: 1980-83

John Eliot Gardiner and his period instrument ensemble produce a lovely, smooth sound in these very well played performances, which use Handel's versions for strings and winds. Balances are fine; playing and recording collaborate to produce a treasurable clarity in which every line registers. –Leslie Gerber … Handel's epic oratorio, Israel in Egypt, here in a gripping performance by John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, was a failure during Handel's lifetime. This was perhaps because of its immense variety of compositional techniques and forms.