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Belshazzar

George Frideric Handel

Coproduction Festival dAix-en-Provence

This live recording from the Festival of Aix-en-Provence 2008 reveals one of Handel's most gripping dramatic works. The curtain rises on a prophecy: the fall of Babylon is imminent; the moral and...

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2 DVD - harmonia mundi HMD9909028.29

Akadémie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, dir. René Jacobs

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DVD Belshazzar Akadémie für Alte Musik Berlin

CD 1

HANDEL. Belshazzar
ACT ONE
SCENE 1
Overture
Vain, fluctuating state of human empire

13:07
SCENE 2
Hark, Cyrus

20:28
SCENE 3
O sacred oracles of truth

11:45
SCENE 4
Let festal joy triumphant reign

29:20

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CD 2

HANDEL. Belshazzar
ACT TWO
SCENE 1
Fenceless the queen of city lies!

10:13
SCENE2
Ye tutelar gods of our empire, look down

27:31
SCENE 3
O God of truth, O faithful guide

9:21
ACT THREE
SCENE 1
Alternate hopes and fears distract my mind

11:36
SCENE 2
I thank thee, Sesach!

2:12
SCENE 3
To power immortal my first thanks are due

27:54

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Description

DVD Belshazzar Akadémie für Alte Musik Berlin

This live recording from the Festival of Aix-en-Provence 2008 reveals one of Handel's most gripping dramatic works. The curtain rises on a prophecy: the fall of Babylon is imminent; the moral and political corruption symbolised by King Belshazzar will soon yield to the forces of the Persian prince Cyrus. From this point on we witness the different stages of the decadence of an empire – an eternally relevant subject whose contemporary resonances are clear for anyone who cares to look and listen.

Artists

Akadémie für Alte Musik Berlin
RIAS Kammerchor
dir. René Jacobs

René Jacobs - Conductor
RIAS Kammerchor - Vocal ensemble
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Chamber ensemble
Kenneth Tarver - Tenor, Belshazzar
Rosemary Joshua - Soprano, Nitocris
Bejun Mehta - Countertenor, Cyrus
Kristina Hammarström - Mezzo-soprano, Daniel
Neal Davies - Baritone, Gobrias

Composers

George Frideric Handel

Technical comments

Collection: harmonia mundi France
Original title: HANDEL. Belshazzar
2 DVD - 2h 46mn 0s
upc/ean. 794881968794
ref. HMD9909028.29
Subtitle : English (VO), French, german
Color : 16/9, NTSC - All zones
DVD : Dolby Digital 2.0 - Dolby Digital 5.1
BD : 5.1 DTS HD MASTER AUDIO - PCM stereo Release Date: 01/05/2011