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 (Available Separately)
B001P
Keyboard-Vocal Score (2008)
Keyboard-Vocal score (SATB, B.c.)
$24.00
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>