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Live performance at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels on 3 June 2012
orchestra: Le Concert d'Anvers (oboe solo: Mathieu Loux)
conductor: Bart Van Reyn
soprano: Ida Falk Winland
tenor: Yves Saelens
bass: Birger Radde
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ARIA
Hannah (soprano): How refreshing to the senses, how reviving for the heart! Through every vein and every nerve there runs
a reviving thrill.
The soul awakes to pleasure and delight, and hearts are gently lifted to new strength, new desires.
RECITATIVE
Simon (bass): Behold! There rises in the sultry air, from the high rim of the mountain-range, a livid cloud of mist and vapours. Forced upwards, it expands and soon the vault of heaven is veiled in darkness.
Lucas (tenor): A hollow rumble from the valley heralds the heavy storm. Laden with disaster, see the dark clouds slowly muster and, full of menace, sink towards the plain.
Hannah (soprano): In fearful apprehension life stands still: no beast, no leaf is moving, a deathly silence reigns.
