Solomon, the great king of the United Monarchy of Judah and Israel, is a subject that inspires music of special grandeur, and Handel's two-and-a-half-hour oratorio is appropriately elaborately scored, with an orchestra larger than usual and the use of double chorus in some movements. A performance of the work in German, rather than the original English, and one that is not particularly attuned to period performance practice, might not seem like an ideal representation of the work, but this version featuring Rundfunkchor ...
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Solomon, the great king of the United Monarchy of Judah and Israel, is a subject that inspires music of special grandeur, and Handel's two-and-a-half-hour oratorio is appropriately elaborately scored, with an orchestra larger than usual and the use of double chorus in some movements. A performance of the work in German, rather than the original English, and one that is not particularly attuned to period performance practice, might not seem like an ideal representation of the work, but this version featuring Rundfunkchor Berlin and Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin ought not to be rejected out of hand. By the late eighteenth century, Handel's English oratorios had become huge hits in German translation, and they have a centuries-old performance history in German-speaking countries. (A nineteenth century German edition of Handel's works by Friedrich Chrysander, the translator of Salomo, was by far the most ambitious and closest to complete version, until a comprehensive edition was begun in the 1950s.)...
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