Myriam Leblanc: Handel: Israel in Egypt - COMPACT DISCS

Myriam Leblanc: Handel: Israel in Egypt - COMPACT DISCS

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Handel: Israel in Egypt

Artist:

Myriam Leblanc

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3701624511763

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-11-21

Number of Discs:

1

Although Israel in Egypt was first performed on 4 April 1739 in tripartite form, Handel probably first composed this oratorio without a complete text. Herve 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: Herve 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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