Handel: Israel in Egypt

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      George Frideric Handel
    • PERFORMER
      Myriam Leblanc, Lucie Edel, Lena Sutor-Wernich, Laurence Kislby, Andreas Wolf, Alexandre Baldo, Le C
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 21, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511763
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1176
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Symphony

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    2. Part II: Recitative: Now there arose a new king over Egypt (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    3. Part II: And the children of Israel sighed (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    4. Part II: Recitative: Then sent He Moses (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    5. Part II: They loathed to drink of the river (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    6. Part II: Aria: Their land brought forth frogs (Alto)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Lena Sutor-Wernich

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    7. Part II: He spake the word (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    8. Part II: He gave them hailstones (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    9. Part II: He sent a thick darkness over all the land (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    10. Part II: He smote all the first-born of Egypt (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    11. Part II: But as for his people (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    12. Part II: Egypt was glad when they departed (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    13. Part II: He rebuked the Red Sea (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    14. Part II: And Israel saw that great work (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    15. Part III: Moses and the Children of Israel (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    16. Part III: Duet: The Lord is my strength and my song (2 Sopranos)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Myriam Leblanc, Lucie Edel

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    17. Part III: He is my God (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    18. Part III: Duet: The Lord is a man of war (2 Basses)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Andreas Wolf, Alexandre Baldo

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    19. Part III: The depths have covered them (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    20. Part III: Thy right hand, O Lord is become glorious (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    21. Part III: And with the blast of thy nostrils (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    22. Part III: The enemy said, I will pursue (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    23. Part III: Thou didst blow with the wind (Soprano)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Myriam Leblanc

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    24. Part III: Who is like unto Thee, O Lord (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    25. Part III: Duet: Thou in Thy mercy (Alto, Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Lena Sutor-Wernich, Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    26. Part III: The people shall hear (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    27. Part III: Aria: Thou shalt bring them in (Alto)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Lena Sutor-Wernich

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    28. Part III: The Lord shall reign (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    29. Part III: Recitative: For the horse of Pharaoh (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    30. Part III: The Lord shall reign (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Chorus, Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    31. Part III: Recitative: And Miriam the prophetess (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet

    32. Part III: Sing ye to the Lord (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Concert Spirituel Orchestra

      Performer: Myriam Leblanc, Laurence Kilsby

      Conductor: Hervé Niquet


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."