℗ 2017 BR-Klassik
Released | July 7, 2017 |
Duration | 2h 18m 37s |
Record Label | BR-Klassik |
Catalogue No. | 900520 |
Genre | Classical (Oratorio) |
Händel: Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 (Live)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Howard Arman, Peter Harvey, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ben Johnson, Julia Doyle
Available in 48 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC audio formats
Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62
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1.1
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Overture (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
8:58 | |||
Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Pt. 1
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1.2
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Why Do the Gentiles Tumult (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:14 | |||
1.3
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Let Us Break Off by Strength of Hand (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:02 | |||
1.4
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Oh Lord, How Many Are My Foes (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
4:08 | |||
1.5
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Him or His God We Not Fear (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:40 | |||
1.6
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Jehovah, to My Words Give Ear (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
5:49 | |||
1.7
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Him or His God We Scorn to Fear (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:46 | |||
1.8
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The Highest, Who in Heav'n Doth Dwell (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:40 | |||
1.9
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Oh, Who Shall Pour into My Swollen Eyes (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:03 | |||
1.10
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Fly from the Threat'ning Vengeance, Fly (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
6:15 | |||
1.11
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Humbled with Fear (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:56 | |||
1.12
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His Scepter Is the Rod of Righteousness (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
6:26 | |||
1.13
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Be Wise at Length (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
6:58 | |||
1.14
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Of Many Millions the Populous Rout (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:22 | |||
1.15
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Jehovah Is My Shield, My Glory (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
5:48 | |||
1.16
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Fools or Madmen Stand (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:29 | |||
1.17
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God Found Them Guilty (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:21 | |||
Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Pt. 2
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1.18
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Oh Liberty, Thou Choicest Treasure (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:26 | |||
1.19
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Who Trusts in God (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:20 | |||
1.20
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Prophetic Visions Strike My Eye (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
7:54 | |||
1.21
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May God, from Whom All Mercies Spring (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
3:17 | |||
1.22
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The Lord Hath Heard My Pray'r (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:26 | |||
1.23
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Then Will I Jehovah's Praise (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:28 | |||
1.24
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All His Mercies Shall Endure (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
1:52 | |||
2.1
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How Great and Many Perils Do Enfold (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:57 | |||
2.2
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After Long Storms and Tempests Overblown (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
7:25 | |||
2.3
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To God, Our Strength (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
6:48 | |||
2.4
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He Has His Mansion Fix'd on High (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
3:11 | |||
2.5
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Hallelujah, Your Voices Raise (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
3:43 | |||
Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62, Pt. 3
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2.6
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Sinfonia (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
6:40 | |||
2.7
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I Will Sing unto the Lord (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:29 | |||
2.8
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Who Is Like unto Thee, Oh Lord (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
1:01 | |||
2.9
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He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:06 | |||
2.10
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When Warlike Ensigns Wave on High (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
4:57 | |||
2.11
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The Enemy Said (Recitative / Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:33 | |||
2.12
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The Enemy Said (Aria / Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:26 | |||
2.13
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The Sword That's Drawn in Virtue's Cause (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Peter Harvey; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:53 | |||
2.14
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Millions Unborn Shall Bless the Hand (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
1:08 | |||
2.15
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When Israel (Recitative / Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:32 | |||
2.16
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When Israel (Aria / Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:44 | |||
2.17
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Tyrants, Whom No Cov'nants Bind (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Ben Johnson; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
3:42 | |||
2.18
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May Balmy Peace (Recitative / Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
0:39 | |||
2.19
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May Balmy Peace (Aria / Live)
George Frideric Handel; Julia Doyle; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
2:40 | |||
2.20
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Blessed Are All They That Fear the Lord (Live)
George Frideric Handel; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin; Howard Arman |
4:25 | |||
Digital Booklet
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For his ''Occasional Oratorio'', composed in 1746 in an age of personal and political upheaval, Handel made generous use of much of his own earlier material, and this resulted in something quite close to an anthology: a choice collection of his most beautiful and most famous pieces - as it were, a ''Best Of''. The ''Messiah'' librettist Charles Jennens complained loudly that the oratorio was ''a triumph for a victory not yet gain'd'', and that its libretto, by a certain Newburgh Hamilton, was an ''inconcevable jumble of John Milton and Edmund Spenser''. Nevertheless, the ''Occasional Oratorio'' offers the modern listener magnificent and largely familiar melodies, highly virtuosic Baroque arias, moving choruses and, above all, a magnificent Late Baroque sound that, in this extremely compact score, is quite unique. Audiences at the time probably considered this to be ''Handel at his best'', and today's public doubtlessly shares that opinion.
This virtuoso and colorful interpretation, recorded recently on February 11, 2017 in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz, was an exemplary success, delighting the audience and the trade press alike. Howard Arman conducted the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, teh Akademie fur Alte Music Berlin with its historically informed performance practice, and a line-up of highly talented English soloists.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – BR-Klassik Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -3.86 -11.37 to -0.50 | -24.96 -31.35 to -17.86 | -21.41 -27.40 to -14.10 | 13 7 to 16 | |
1.1 | Overture (Live) | -1.28 | -23.44 | -20.2 | 14 |
1.2 | Why Do the Gentiles Tumult (Live) | -4.39 | -25.10 | -22.0 | 14 |
1.3 | Let Us Break Off by Strength of Hand (Live) | -0.51 | -18.94 | -15.9 | 12 |
1.4 | Oh Lord, How Many Are My Foes (Live) | -6.21 | -27.54 | -24.2 | 14 |
1.5 | Him or His God We Not Fear (Live) | -0.50 | -17.96 | -14.6 | 12 |
1.6 | Jehovah, to My Words Give Ear (Live) | -7.40 | -29.97 | -26.5 | 14 |
1.7 | Him or His God We Scorn to Fear (Live) | -0.50 | -18.26 | -15.2 | 12 |
1.8 | The Highest, Who in Heav'n Doth Dwell (Live) | -7.41 | -28.69 | -23.8 | 14 |
1.9 | Oh, Who Shall Pour into My Swollen Eyes (Live) | -4.78 | -28.98 | -25.2 | 14 |
1.10 | Fly from the Threat'ning Vengeance, Fly (Live) | -3.25 | -26.11 | -22.9 | 15 |
1.11 | Humbled with Fear (Live) | -11.37 | -31.35 | -27.4 | 13 |
1.12 | His Scepter Is the Rod of Righteousness (Live) | -4.06 | -27.07 | -24.0 | 15 |
1.13 | Be Wise at Length (Live) | -1.60 | -24.54 | -21.4 | 15 |
1.14 | Of Many Millions the Populous Rout (Live) | -8.74 | -28.65 | -24.2 | 12 |
1.15 | Jehovah Is My Shield, My Glory (Live) | -6.78 | -27.85 | -24.7 | 13 |
1.16 | Fools or Madmen Stand (Live) | -11.01 | -30.62 | -26.0 | 14 |
1.17 | God Found Them Guilty (Live) | -0.88 | -20.48 | -17.4 | 13 |
1.18 | Oh Liberty, Thou Choicest Treasure (Live) | -4.73 | -29.53 | -24.9 | 16 |
1.19 | Who Trusts in God (Live) | -4.67 | -26.19 | -22.0 | 11 |
1.20 | Prophetic Visions Strike My Eye (Live) | -0.50 | -24.97 | -21.5 | 16 |
1.21 | May God, from Whom All Mercies Spring (Live) | -0.50 | -17.94 | -14.1 | 12 |
1.22 | The Lord Hath Heard My Pray'r (Live) | -10.26 | -30.39 | -26.2 | 13 |
1.23 | Then Will I Jehovah's Praise (Live) | -3.05 | -25.53 | -22.4 | 14 |
1.24 | All His Mercies Shall Endure (Live) | -2.23 | -21.34 | -18.1 | 13 |
2.1 | How Great and Many Perils Do Enfold (Live) | -3.14 | -26.56 | -23.4 | 14 |
2.2 | After Long Storms and Tempests Overblown (Live) | -2.36 | -26.01 | -22.8 | 15 |
2.3 | To God, Our Strength (Live) | -0.50 | -23.16 | -19.9 | 14 |
2.4 | He Has His Mansion Fix'd on High (Live) | -6.43 | -28.04 | -24.7 | 14 |
2.5 | Hallelujah, Your Voices Raise (Live) | -0.50 | -20.02 | -17.0 | 12 |
2.6 | Sinfonia (Live) | -5.54 | -28.33 | -25.6 | 14 |
2.7 | I Will Sing unto the Lord (Live) | -0.50 | -19.87 | -17.0 | 13 |
2.8 | Who Is Like unto Thee, Oh Lord (Live) | -0.50 | -18.11 | -14.7 | 11 |
2.9 | He Gave Them Hailstones for Rain (Live) | -0.50 | -18.15 | -14.4 | 11 |
2.10 | When Warlike Ensigns Wave on High (Live) | -1.35 | -25.47 | -22.3 | 15 |
2.11 | The Enemy Said (Recitative / Live) | -9.23 | -28.34 | -24.3 | 13 |
2.12 | The Enemy Said (Aria / Live) | -3.70 | -25.29 | -21.9 | 14 |
2.13 | The Sword That's Drawn in Virtue's Cause (Live) | -7.68 | -27.04 | -23.8 | 14 |
2.14 | Millions Unborn Shall Bless the Hand (Live) | -0.51 | -17.86 | -14.8 | 13 |
2.15 | When Israel (Recitative / Live) | -5.65 | -29.99 | -25.1 | 7 |
2.16 | When Israel (Aria / Live) | -4.91 | -27.65 | -24.2 | 15 |
2.17 | Tyrants, Whom No Cov'nants Bind (Live) | -3.43 | -27.11 | -23.8 | 16 |
2.18 | May Balmy Peace (Recitative / Live) | -3.67 | -25.71 | -20.9 | 11 |
2.19 | May Balmy Peace (Aria / Live) | -2.58 | -25.16 | -21.6 | 14 |
2.20 | Blessed Are All They That Fear the Lord (Live) | -0.50 | -19.16 | -15.1 | 11 |