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Handel - Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

Simone Kermes, Virgil Hartinger & Konstantin Wolff

Cologne Chamber Choir & Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann

Handel - Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
Neumann's forces respond magnificently. Solo voices have a rare, natural ease. In Alexander's Feast, Simone Kermes's accompanied recitative… is breathtaking; Konstantin Wolff is thrilling...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20095 out of 5 stars

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Handel - Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

Simone Kermes, Virgil Hartinger & Konstantin Wolff

Cologne Chamber Choir & Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann

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Neumann's forces respond magnificently. Solo voices have a rare, natural ease. In Alexander's Feast, Simone Kermes's accompanied recitative… is breathtaking; Konstantin Wolff is thrilling...

BBC Music Magazine, September 20095 out of 5 stars

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  • Release date: 15th Jun 2009
  • Label: Carus
  • Catalogue number: CARUS83424
  • Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV. 75 / Part 1
Work length56:56
1. Overture
Track length6:08
2. "T'was at the royal feast"
Track length1:08
3. "Happy, happy, happy pair!"
Track length4:31
4. "Timotheus placed on high"
Track length0:26
5. "The song began from Jove"
Track length1:09
6. "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"
Track length2:19
7. "With ravish'd ears"
Track length3:17
8. "The praise of Bacchus then"
Track length0:32
9. "Bacchus, ever fair and young" - 10. "Bacchus's blessings are a treasure"
Track length4:01
11. "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"
Track length0:38
12. "He chose a mournful Muse"
Track length1:31
13. "He sung Darius, great and good"
Track length3:41
14. "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
Track length1:09
15. "Behold Darius great and good"
Track length3:02
16. "The mighty master smiled to see"
Track length0:34
17. "Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
Track length3:32
18. "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
Track length4:29
20. "The many rend the skies"
Track length4:03
19. "The prince, unable to conceal his pain"
Track length6:30
20. "The many rend the skies" (II)
Track length4:16
Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV. 75 / Part 2
Work length27:51
21. "Now strike the golden lyre again" - 22. "Break his bond" - 23. "Hark, hark! The horrid sound"
Track length2:49
24. "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - 25. "Behold, a ghastly band"
Track length5:01
26. "Give the vengeance due"
Track length1:29
27. "The princes applaud with a furious joy"
Track length2:01
28. "Thaïs led the way" - "The princes applaud"
Track length6:18
29. "Thus long ago" - 30. "At last divine Cecilia came"
Track length6:08
31. "Let old Timotheus yield the price"
Track length0:22
31. "Let old Timotheus yield the price" (II)
Track length3:43
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day, HWV76
Work length50:24
1. Overture
Track length4:59
2. "From Harmony; When Nature"
Track length3:45
3. "From Harmony, from Heavenly Harmony"
Track length3:47
4. "What Passion cannot Music Raise and Quell"
Track length8:06
5. "The Trumpet's Loud Clangour"
Track length3:24
6. March
Track length2:02
7. "The Soft Complaining Flute"
Track length5:24
8. "Sharp Violins Proclaim their Jealous Pangs"
Track length4:04
9. "But Oh! What Art can Teach"
Track length5:20
10. "Orpheus could Lead the Savage Race"
Track length1:42
11. "But Bright Cecilia Raised the Wonder Higher"
Track length0:44
12. "As from the Power of Sacred Lays"
Track length7:07

Awards and reviews

September 2009

Neumann's forces respond magnificently. Solo voices have a rare, natural ease. In Alexander's Feast, Simone Kermes's accompanied recitative… is breathtaking; Konstantin Wolff is thrilling in 'Revenge Timotheus cries' and terrifyingly evocative as bassoons conjure up 'a ghastly band [of ghosts]'... The clarity...27 voices, while the orchestra, similarly proportioned, is splendidly taut. In short, this recording is an outstanding contribution to the Handel anniversary celebrations.
5 out of 5 stars

Awards Issue 2009

Collegium Cartusianum play with suppleness, unforced strength in extrovert numbers and sensitivity in quieter and more lyrical moments… Simone Kermes's melancholic delivery of the pitiful "He chose a mournful muse" is breathtaking… The Cologne Chamber Choir is excellent: the voices in the opening phrase of "The list'ning crowd" seem to float effortlessly... "Break his bands of sleep asunder" is sensational and the falling cadences evoking "heav'nly harmony" are beautifully balanced during the first chorus of the shorter ode.
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