[00:00.00]Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 3: 75. Recitative: Whence comest thou? - 76. Air: Impious Wretch, of Race accurst - Andreas Scholl/Angus Smith/Gabrieli/Paul McCreesh
[00:00.20]Composed by：George Frideric Händel
[00:01.48]Whence comest thou
[00:02.92]Out of the camp of Israel
[00:05.50]Thou canst inform me then how went the battle
[00:10.85]The people put to flight in numbers fell
[00:16.28]And saul and jonathan his son are dead
[00:25.80]Alas my brother but how knowest thou
[00:33.79]That they are dead
[00:36.49]Upon mount gilboa
[00:37.47]I met with saul just fall'n upon his spear
[00:42.37]Swiftly the foe pursu'd he cried to me
[00:47.10]Begg'd me to finish his imperfect work
[00:51.23]And end a life of pain and ignominy
[01:00.16]I knew he could not live therefore slew him
[01:05.27]Took from his head the crown and from his arms
[01:09.41]The bracelets and have brought them to my Lord
[01:13.36]Whence art thou
[01:15.38]Of the race of amalek
[01:19.30]Impious wretch
[01:31.59]Impious wretch of race accurst
[01:34.38]Of race accurst
[01:36.17]And of all that race the worst
[01:39.76]And of all that race the worst
[01:42.55]How hast thou dar'd to lift thy sword
[01:45.83]Again th'anointed of the Lord
[01:51.20]Again th'anointed of the Lord
[01:57.71]Fall on him smite him let him die
[02:01.44]On thy own head thy blood will lie
[02:04.66]Since thy own mouth has testified
[02:07.93]By thee the Lord's anointed died
[02:12.26]By thee the Lord's anointed anointed
[02:18.76]Anointed anointed anointed died