Mintel Archive of Recordings

The Richard and Judith Mintel Archive of Recordings

  
  • About
    • Contents Summary
    • Thomas Wikman, Conductor and Keyboard Artist
    • Richard Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
    • Judith Mintel, Recording Engineer & Producer
    • Josephine ("Josey") Mintel, Musician and Archivist
      • Accidental Tourists: The United Nations Mission in Kosovo
      • Rentier State: The Case of Kosovo
      • Young Serbs and Albanians Brought Together Through Art
      • The Blame Game: EU ducks Bosnian Migrant Crisis
    • Recording & Archiving Philosophy and Techniques
    • Radio Broadcaster Information
  • Archive
    • Collection One
    • Collection Two
    • Collection Three
    • Collection Four
    • Collection Five
    • Collection Six
    • Collection Seven
    • Collection Eight
    • Collection Nine
  • News & Reviews
    • Historical News/Reviews
    • Chicago's Music of the Baroque: The Wikman Years
  • Music Samples
    • WFMT Tribute to Richard Walter Mintel
    • Mozart Concertos and Sinfonias
    • Advent and Christmas Music for Choir
    • Handel's Semele Acts I, II & III
    • Ernest Bloch ~ Avodath HaKodesh (Sacred Service)
    • Mozart Symphonies
    • Mozart Vocal Works
    • Franz Joseph Haydn
    • Handel's Saul Acts I, II, III
    • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Liturgical Music
    • George Frideric Handel~ Excerpts
    • Georg Philipp Telemann
    • Johannes Brahms
    • Gregorian Chant
    • Henry Purcell
    • Music for Brass
    • Music for Strings
    • Music for Organ
    • Music for Woodwinds
    • Music for Orchestra
    • Grand Teton Music Festival
    • Richard Hunt's Studio Concerts
    • Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah
  • Resources
    • Featured Artists and Organizations
    • Commercial CDs
    • Links to the WFMT Studs Terkel Archive
  • Contact

George Frideric Handel~ Excerpts

Bass Aria: Mirth, Admit me of thy crew 

Richard Cohn, baritone
Gail Williams, horn
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
L’Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection Two, Vol. 1


Mirth, admit me of thy crew!
To listen how the hounds and horn
Cheerly rouse the slumb’ring morn,
From the side of some hoar hill,
Through the high wood echoing shrill.

Soprano Aria: Alcina, Act II, Scene VIII, “Ah, mio cor”

Linda Mabbs Soprano
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor

Richard and Judith Mintel, Recording Engineers · Act II, Scene VIII Alcina (sop) Air

Tenor Aria: Waft her Angels through the sky

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Tenor
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Tenor Aria from Jephtha
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection Four, Vol. 1


Waft her, angels, through the skies,
Far above yon azure plain,
Glorious there, like you, to rise,
There, like you, forever reign.
Waft her. . . da capo

Mezzo-soprano aria: Iris, Hence Away  

Karen Brunssen, Mezzo-soprano as Juno
Aria for mezzo-soprano from Semele
Thomas Wikman, Music Director & Conductor
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection Five,, Vol. 2 


Hence, Iris, hence away,
Far from the realms of day!
O’er Scythian hills to the Maeotian lake
A speedy flight we’ll take!
There Somnus I’ll compel
His downy bed to leave, and silent cell;
With noise and light I will his peace molest,
Nor shall he sink again to pleasing rest,
Till to my vow’d revenge he grants supplies,
And seals with sleep the wakeful dragons’ eyes.
Hence. . . da capo

Abner recitative and aria;  Handel’s Athalia

Kevin Langan, bass
Thomas Wikman, Music Director & Conductor
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection One, Vol. 3

Tenor and chorus: Haste Thee, nymph… 

Kurt Hansen, Tenor
L’Allegro, Il Penseroso Ed Il Moderato
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection Two, Vol. 1


Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee
Jest and youthful jollity,
Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles,
Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles
Such as hang on Hebe’s cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek,
Sport, that wrinkled care derides,
And laughter, holding both his sides.
Chorus
Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful jollity;
Sport, that wrinkled care derides,
And laughter, holding both his sides.

Chorus: Jealousy!

Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Chorus from Hercules
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra
Collection Three, Vol. 10


Jealousy! Infernal pest,
Tyrant of the human breast!
How from slightest causes bred
Dost thou lift thy hated head!
Trifles. light as floating air.
Strongest proofs to thee appear!

Countertenor Recitative & Aria: “In The Battle, fame pursuing…

Jeffry Gall, Countertenor
David Schrader, Organ
Thomas Wikman, Music Director & Conductor
Recitative & Aria from Deborah
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection Two, Vol. 11


Great prophetess, my soul’s on fire
To execute the ardours you inspire;
O that the fight were now begun!
My father should not blush to call me son.
In the battle, fame pursuing,
We’ll with slaughter float the plains;
And our tyrants, low in ruin,
Soon shall wear their captives’ chains.
In the battle. . . da capo

Tenor Aria “But sooner Jordan’s stream”

from Saul by George F. Handel
Richard Versalle, tenor
Thomas Wikman Music Director & Conductor
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Collection Two, Vol. 8

Jonathan:
But sooner Jordan’s stream, I swear,
Back to his spring shall swiftly roll,
Than I consent to hurt a hair
Of thee, thou darling of my soul. 

Tenor Aria: War, he sung, is toil and trouble

Richard Versalle, Tenor
Thomas Wikman, Music Director and Conductor
Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
Tenor Aria from Alexander’s Feast
Collection Two, Vol. 8

War, he sung, is toil and trouble,
Honour but an empty bubble,
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, oh think it worth enjoying,
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the good the Gods provide thee.
War he sung. . . da capo

Abbrucio, avvampo e fremo from Rinaldo

Thomas Wikman – Music Director and Conductor
Ewa Podleś, contralto

Collection Eight, Vol. 13

 

In This Section

  • WFMT Tribute to Richard Walter Mintel
  • Advent and Christmas Music for Choir
  • Mozart Concertos and Sinfonias
  • Ernest Bloch ~ Avodath HaKodesh (Sacred Service)
  • Handel’s Semele Acts I, II & III
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Mozart Symphonies
  • Mozart Vocal Works
  • Handel’s Saul Acts I, II, III
  • Johann Sebastian Bach
  • George Frideric Handel~ Excerpts
  • Liturgical Music
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Gregorian Chant
  • Henry Purcell
  • Music for Brass
  • Music for Organ
  • Music for Strings
  • Music for Woodwinds
  • Music for Orchestra
  • Grand Teton Music Festival
  • Richard Hunt’s Studio Concerts
  • Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah
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