Catalogue

Summary:

Apollo’s Fire’s founder and director Jeannette Sorrell is “a masterful musical storyteller” (Seen and Heard). The Maestra and her acclaimed baroque orchestra add to their distinguished AVIE discography that includes Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Messiah, with her own adaptation of the composer’s oratorio Israel in Egypt. This colourful orchestral showcase takes the listener on a biblical journey from the Israelites lamentations on the death of Joseph, to the frogs, locusts, disease and darkness that plague the Egyptians, to Moses’ miraculous parting of the Red Sea. Apollo’s Fire launch the album with a one-night-only performance of Israel in Egypt in their home base of Cleveland, on October 21, before travelling east for a collaboration of the work with the New York Philharmonic on October 25 and 26. Joining Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire are sopranos Margaret Carpenter Haigh and Molly Netter, countertenor Daniel Moody, tenor Jacob Perry, baritone Edward Vogel, and the Apollo’s Singers chorus.

Tracklist:

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759)
Israel In Egypt
A Dramatic Oratorio (adaptation by Jeannette Sorrell)

PART I. Lamentations of the Israelites for the Death of Joseph, 1739
1. Sinfonia 2:08
2. The Sons of Israel do mourn 5:11
3. How is the mighty fall’n! 3:25
4. The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance 3:26 | Molly Netter | Jacob Perry | Edward Vogel
5. Their bodies are buried in peace 1:41

PART II. Exodus
6. Now there arose a new king over Egypt 0:24 | Jacob Perry
7. And the children of Israel sighed 2:01 | Daniel Moody
8. Then sent he Moses | Jacob Perry 0:28
9.  Their land brought forth frogs 2:37 | Daniel Moody
10. He spake the word 2:07
11. He gave them hailstones for rain 2:14
12. He sent a thick darkness over all the land 2:47
13. He smote all the first-born of Egypt 2:26
14. He rebuked the Red Sea 1:38
15. But the waters overwhelmed their enemies 1:17

PART III. Moses’ Song
16. Moses and the children of Israel sung this song unto the Lord 3:23
17. The Lord is my strength and my song 4:12 | Margaret Carpenter Haigh & Molly Netter
18. He is my God and I will prepare him a habitation 0:48
19. To God our strength, sing loud and clear 7:07 | Edward Vogel with Steven Marquardt, trumpet; Debra Nagy, oboe
20. The depths have covered them 2:17
21. Thy right hand, O Lord 1:21
22. The enemy said, I will pursue 2:15 | Jacob Perry
23. Thou didst blow with the wind | Margaret Carpenter Haigh 2:41
24. Who is like unto thee 1:15
25. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth thy people | Daniel Moody & Jacob Perry 2:42
26. The people shall hear, and be afraid 4:07
27. Thou shalt bring them in | Daniel Moody 2:46
28. The Lord shall reign forever and ever | chorus
For the horse of the Pharaoh | Jacob Perry
The Lord shall reign forever and ever | chorus
And Miriam the prophetess | Jacob Perry
The Lord shall reign forever and ever | chorus
Sing ye to the Lord | Molly Netter
The Lord shall reign forever and ever | chorus
The horse and his rider | Margaret Carpenter Haigh
The Lord shall reign forever and ever | chorus | 5:15

Total Duration: 74:13

Recorded 20 February, 2022 at First Baptist Church, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Recording Producer & Editor: Erica Brenner
Mastering and Engineer: Daniel Shores