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Handel Joshua / Cummings, Dennis, Pokupic, Duske, Tarver, Handel / Cummings, Laurence, Date 03/10/2015, Composer George Frideric Handel, Performer Tobias [Baritone Vocal] Berndt, Kenneth Tarver, Renata Pokupic, Anna Dennis, Conductor Laurence Cummings, Orchestra/Ensemble North German Radio Chorus, Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Number of Discs 2. Joshua is one of four so-called 'victory' oratorios Handel composed in the late 1740s, which commemorate the defeat of the 1745-46 Jacobite Rebellion. It takes as it's subject matter the biblical story of Joshua, who roused his people to a sequence of divinely aided victories. The oratorio remained a favorite with English and continental audiences until well after Handel's death. This recording, taken from live performances, features a superb cast of soloists supported by the Festspiel Orchester Göttingen, conducted from the harpsichord by Laurence Cummings. Album Tracks 1. Introduction 2. Ye Sons of Israel, Ev'ry Tribe Attend 3. Behold, My Friends, What Vast Rewards Are Giv'n 4. O First in Wisdom, What Vast Rewards Are Giv'n 5. Matrons and Virgins, with Unwearied Pray'r 6. Oh! Who Can Tell, Oh! Who Can Hear 7. Caleb, Attend to All I Now Prescribe 8. To Long Posterity We Here Record 9. How Long Shall the Memory Last 10. While Kedron's Brook to Jordan's Stream 11. But, Who Is He? - Tremendous to Behold! 12. Awful, Pleasing Being Say 13. Joshua, I Come Commission'd from on High 14. Leader of Israel 15. To Give Command, Prerogative Is Thine 16. Haste, Haste Israel 17. The Lord Commands, and Joshua Leads 18. In These Blest Scenes 19. 'Tis Achsah's Voice! 20. Hail, Lovely Virgin of This Blissful Bow'r! 21. Hark! 'Tis the Linnet and the Thrush 22. O Achsah, Form'd for Ev'ry Chaste Delight 23. Our Limpid Streams with Freedom Flow 24. The Trumpet Calls; Now Jericho Shall Kno
