Charpentier: Judicium Salomonis
Series: Baroque Era Publisher: A-R Editions
Judicium Salomonis
Edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock
B001 Charpentier: Judicium Salomonis
978-0-89579-001-9
Full Score (1964)
9x12, xiv + 112 pp.
$60.00
SKU
B001
Performance Parts
B001P
B001R
Dating from 1702, this dramatic choral setting (SATB with instrumental accompaniment) of the story of Solomon's Judgment is one of the composer's mature works.
1. [Prelude]
Prima Pars
2. [Recitative]: Confortatum est regnum
3. [Chorus]: Tunc laetata est
4. Tres e populi: Et rex similiter
5. [Air of Solomon]: Benedictus es Domine Deus Israel
6. [Chorus]: Ideo cunctis unanimiter
Seconde Partie
7. [Prelude]
8. [Recitative]: Nocte autem sequenti
9. [Recitative]: Postula, Salomon
10. [Accompanied Recitative]: Domine Deus meus
11. [Arioso]: Quia non petisti
12. Choeur: Et facto mane
13. [Recitative]: Obsecro, mi domine
14. [Duet]: Non est ita
15. [Recitative]: Haec dicit
16. [Duet]: Non est ita
17. [Recitative]: Adferte mihi gladium
18. [Duet]: Ah, domine mi rex
19. [Recitative]: Date huic infantem vivum
20. Dernier Choeur: Audivit omnes Israel
<div>"Our scanty knowledge of Charpentier is enriched by the publication of this oratorio. . . . [Professor Hitchcock's] edition is a model of what such things should be." J. A. Westrup, <em>Music & Letters</em>