There have been great Sauls -- Charles Mackerras' on Archiv and Peter Neumann on Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm. There have been acceptable Sauls -- Paul McCreesh's on Archiv and Mogens Wöldike's on Vanguard and Philip Ledger's on Virgin. There have been deeply flawed Sauls -- John Eliot Gardiner's on Philips and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's on Teldec. There have even been downright poor Sauls, but they're not worth mentioning. ThisSaul by René Jacobs with the Concerto Köln and the RIAS-Kammerchor is easily as good as the ...
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There have been great Sauls -- Charles Mackerras' on Archiv and Peter Neumann on Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm. There have been acceptable Sauls -- Paul McCreesh's on Archiv and Mogens Wöldike's on Vanguard and Philip Ledger's on Virgin. There have been deeply flawed Sauls -- John Eliot Gardiner's on Philips and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's on Teldec. There have even been downright poor Sauls, but they're not worth mentioning. ThisSaul by René Jacobs with the Concerto Köln and the RIAS-Kammerchor is easily as good as the best and maybe even better. Jacobs has done splendid things with Handel in his Giulio Cesare and Rinaldo but his Saul is as good and maybe even better. Jacobs seems to go even deeper into this work's fusion of the grandly public and the deeply private, of the enormously heroic and the immensely tragic, of the entirely political and the absolutely personal. His cast is superb from top -- and there are a lot of female and male sopranos in Saul -- to bottom -- bass Gidon Saks is nearly...
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Add this copy of Handel: Saul to cart. $31.19, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Harmonia Mundi (Fra).
