tracks

Ouverture
Recitative: Happy Assyria (A Ninevite)
Chorus: Hear Us, O Baal
Recitative: How Soon Eclips'd Is Human Joy (Tobit)
Solo & Chorus: Hear From Thy Mercies Seat (Tobit)
Recitative: The Lord Hath Heard My Pray'r (Tobit)
Air: Will God, Whose Mercies Ever Flow (Tobias)
Recitative: But Say, My Rightous Lord (Anna, Tobit)
Duet: To Steal A Grave (Anna, Tobit)
Recitative: Your Pardon (Tobias)
Air: Boistrous Winds And Billows Rolling (Tobias)
Chorus: Tyrants May A While Presume
Sinfonia
Accompagnato: Ah, Wretched Sarah! (Sarah)
Air: Paid Be My Adoration (Sarah)
Recitative: Be Comforted, My Daughter (Raguel)
Air: The Lord Sends His Thunders (Raguel)
Chorus: All Pow'r In Heav'n Above Or Earth Beneath
Sinfonia
Accompagnato: Alas! To What Variety Of Ills (Tobit)
Air: In Great Jehovah (Tobit)
Recitative: Happy In Thee, My Son (Tobit)
Air: Descend Kind Pity (Azarias)
Chorus: Impartial Heav'n
Recitative: If Blindness, Scorn, Contempt And Misery (A Ninevite)
Chorus: O Baal, Monarch Of The Skies!
Ritornello
Recitative: Pain'd As I Am (Tobit, Anna)
Air: Thy Pleasing Face (Anna)
Recitative: O, Though Bright Sun (Anna)
Air: With Darkness Deep, As Is My Woe (Anna)
Sinfonia
Recitative: What Caution Is Too Great (Tobit, Azarias)
Air: Thou, God Most High (Azarias)
Duet: Cease Thy Anguish (Azarias, Tobias)
Chorus: The Clouded Scene Begins To Clear
Sinfonia
Recitative: How Happy, Daughter (Raguel, Sarah)
Air: No Nobler Joys Aspiring (Sarah)
Recitative: O Azarias, I Must Freely Own (Tobias, Azarias)
Recitative: The Gratefull Tribute Of Our Thanks (Raguel)
Air: Let Songs Of Varied Measure (Raguel)
Chorus: Now Love, That Everlasting Joy
Chorus: Happy, Happy Shall They Be
Sinfonia
Accompagnato: Still Am I Persecuted (Tobit)
Air: Cease Your Pride, Deluded Mortals (Tobit)
Chorus: Tremble, Guilt, For Though Shalt Find
Sinfonia
Recitative: Hail, Tobit! (Raphael, Tobit)
Accompagnato: Henceforth Through All Changing Scenes Of Life (Anna)
Air: Ma Son, How Happy In Thy Sweet Return (Anna)
Chorus: Let None Despair
Accompagnato And Recitative: Blest Be The God Of Heav'n (Tobit, Raguel)
Air: May True Joy (Raguel)
Terzetto: More Cheerful Appearing (Anna, Tobias, Sarah)
Air: Watchfull Angels (Sarah)
Recitative: O King Of Kings (Sarah)
Air: Allelujah (Sarah)
Chorus: Swift Our Numbers
Recitative: 'Tis Well (Raphael)
Accompagnato: O Niniveh! (Raphael)
Air: In Jehovah's Awful Sight (Raphael)
Symphony
Recitative: Saw Ye The Radiant Streams Of Light (Tobit)
Chorus And Solo: Ye Servants Of Th'eternal King

notes

Recorded live at Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany, on 3rd June, 2001

This recording has been generously supported by Lafarge GmbH, Oberursel

Cover picture: "The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah, 1733 by Pierre Parrocel (1670-1739)
(Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille France / Bridgeman Art Library)

DDD | Live

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℗ 2001 & © 2007 Naxos Rights International Ltd

Anna ................ Maya Boog, Soprano
Sarah................ Linda Perillo, Soprano
Azarias / Raphael ... Barbara Hannigan, Soprano
Tobias .............. Alison Browner, Mezzo-Soprano
Tobit ............... Knut Schoch, Tenor
Raguel .............. Stephan MacLeod, Bass

credits

Bass Vocals – Stephan MacLeod
Choir – Junge Kantorei
Compiled By – John Christopher Smith
Composed By – Handel,
Conductor – Joachim Carlos Martini
Edited By – Joachim Carlos Martini
Liner Notes [Booklet Notes] – Keith Anderson (6)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Alison Browner
Orchestra – Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra,
Painting [Cover Painting] – Pierre Parrocel
Soprano Vocals – Barbara Hannigan, Linda Perillo, Maya Boog
Tenor Vocals – Knut Schoch

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Naxos Rights International Ltd.
Recorded At – Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany

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