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Samuel Humphreys
King's Theatre in London, 17.03.1733
Deborah - Yvonne Kenny (soprano)
Jael/ Israelite woman - Susan Gritton (soprano)
Sisera - Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano)
Barak - James Bowman (countertenor)
Abinoam - Michael George (bass)
Herald – Mark Milhofer (tenor)
Chief Priest of Baal – Colin Campbell (baritone)
Chief Priest of the Israelites - Adrian Peacock (bass)
New College Choir, Oxford
The King's Consort
Conductor - Robert King


CD1
1. Part I. Overture: Grave – Allegro – Minuet
2. Scene 1. Immortal Lord of earth and skies (chorus)
3. Recitative: O Barak, favour'd of the skies (Deborah/Barak)
4. Duet: Where do thy ardours raise me? (Barak/Deborah)
5. For bear thy doubts! to arms! away! (chorus)
6. Recitative: Since heav'n has thus his will express'd (Barak)
7. For ever to the voice of pray'r (soli/chorus)
8. Recitative: By that adorable decree (Deborah)
9. O hear thy lowly servants' pray'r (chorus)
10. Recitative: Ye sons of Israel, cease your fears (Deborah)
11. O blast, with thy tremendous brow (Chorus)
12. Recitative: To whomsoe'er his fate the tyrant owes (Barak)
13. Air: How lovely is the blooming fair (Barak)
14. Scene 2. Recitative: O Deborah! where'er I turn my eyes (Jael/Deborah)
15. Air: Choirs of angels, all around thee (Deborah)
16. Recitative: My transports are too great to tell (Jael)
17. Air: To joy he brightens my despair (Jael)
18. Scene 3. Recitative: Barak, my son, the joyful sound (Abinoam)
19. Air: Awake the ardour of thy breast (Abinoam)
20. Recitative: I go where heav'n and duty call (Barak)
21. Air: All danger disdaining (Barak)
22. Let thy deeds be glorious (chorus)
23. Scene 4 & Scene 5. Recitative: My chrage is to declare (Herald/Barak/Deborah)
24. Despair all around them (chorus)
25. Part II. Scene 1. Shorus: See, the proud chief advances now (chorus)
26. Recitative: That here rebellious arms I see (Sisera)
27. Air: At my feet extended low (Sisera)
28. Recitative: Go frown, barbarian (Deborah)
29. Air: In Jehovah's awful sight (Deborah)
30. Recitative: Yes, how your God in wonders can excel (Sisera)
31. Air: Whilst you boast the wondrous story (Sisera)
32. Air: Impious mortal, cease to brave (Barak)
CD2
1. Recitative: Behold the nations all around (Chief Priest of Baal)
2. O Baal, monarch of the skies! (Chorus of Baal's priests)
3. Recitative: No more, ye infidels, no more! (Chief Priest of the Israelites)
4. Lord of eternity, who hast in store (chorus of Israelites)
5. Recitative: By his great name, and his alone (Deborah/Sisera)
6. All your boast will end in woe (Soli/Chorus)
7. Recitative: Great prophetess, my soul's on fire (Barak)
8. Air: In the battle, fame pursuing (Barak)
9. Recitative: Thy ardours warm the winter of my age (Abinoam)
10. Air: Swift inundation of desolation (Abinoam)
11. Recitative: O Judah, with what joy I see (Israelite woman)
12. Air: No more disconsolate I'll mourn (Israelite woman)
13. Recitative: Now, Jael, to thy tent retire (Deborah)
14. Air: O the pleasure my soul is possessing (Jael)
15. Recitative: Barak, we now to battle go (Deborah)
16. Duet: Smiling freedom, lovely guest (Deborah/Barak)
17. The great king of kings will aid us today (Chorus)
18. Part III. Scene 1. A grand miltary symphony: Now the proud isulting foe (chorus of Israelites)
19. Recitative: The haughty foe whose pride to heav'n did soar (Israelite woman)
20. Air: Now sweetly smiling peace descends (Israelite woman)
21. Scene 2. Recitative: My pray'rs are heard, the blessings of this day (Abinoam/Barak)
22. Air: Tears, such as tender fathers shed (Abinoam)
23. Scene 3. Recitative: O deborah, my fears are o'er (Jael)
24. Doleful tidings, how ye wound (Chorus of Baal's priests)
25. Air: Our fears are now forever fled (Israelite woman)
26. Recitative: I saw the tyrant breathless in her tent (Barak/Jael)
27. Air: Tyrant, now no more we dread thee (Jael)
28. Recitative: If, Jael, I a right divine (Deborah)
29. Air: The glorious sun shall cease to shed (Deborah)
30. Recitative: May heav'n, with kind profusion, shed (Barak)
31. Air: Low at her feet he bow'd, he fell (Barak)
32. Recitative: O great Jehovah! may thy foes (Deborah)
33. Let our glad songs to heav'n ascend (Chorus)