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Special offer. Handel: Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Knut Schoch (tenor) & Klaus Mertens (bass)

Junge Kantorei & Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini

The performance is characterised by an austerity of tone that speaks volumes in the closing sections, when worldliness gives way to spirituality...The playing is spare, stylish and beautiful.... — The Guardian, 11th March 2010 More…
  • Release Date: 1st Feb 2010
  • Catalogue No: 8572224
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Martini & Junge Kantorei Handel Oratorios
  • Length: 79 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Alexander's Feast

Work length1:19:22
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  • Knut Schoch (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Gerlinde Samann (soprano)
  • Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
  • Joachim Carlos Martini
  • Recorded: 11 May 2008
  • Recording Venue: Basilika Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany

Part 1: Overture

Track length5:29
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Part 1: Recitative: 'Twas at the royal feast (Tenor)

Track length0:55
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Part I: Air: Happy, happy, happy pair (Tenor, Chorus)

Track length4:15
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Part I: Recitative: Timotheus, plac'd on high (Tenor)

Track length1:39
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Part 1: Accompagnato: The song began from Jove (Soprano)

Track length0:52
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Part 1: The list'ning Crowd (Chorus)

Track length2:23
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Part 1: Air: With ravish'd ears (Soprano)

Track length2:57
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Part 1: Recitative: The praise of Bacchus (Tenor)

Track length0:36
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Part 1: Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair and young (Bass and Chorus)

Track length4:39
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Part 1: Recitative: Sooth'd with the sound (Tenor)

Track length0:37
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Part 1: Accompagnato: He chose a mournful muse (Soprano)

Track length0:59
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Part 1: Air: He sung Darius great and good (Soprano)

Track length2:17
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Part 1: Accompagnato: With downcast looks (Soprano)

Track length0:50
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Part 1: Behold Darius great and good (Chorus)

Track length2:14
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Part 1: Recitative: The mighty master smil'd to see (Tenor)

Track length0:30
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Part 1: Air: Softly sweet (Soprano)

Track length2:24
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Part 1: Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble (Soprano)

Track length4:33
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Part 1: The many rend the skies (Chorus)

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Part 1: Air: The Prince, unable to conceal his pain (Soprano)

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Part 1: The many rend the skies (Chorus)

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Part 2: Accompagnato and Chorus: Now strike the golden lyre (Tenor and Chorus)

Track length2:26
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Part 2: Air: Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries (Bass)

Track length7:39
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Part 2: Accompagnato: Give the vengeance due (Tenor)

Track length1:28
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Part 2: Air: The princes applaud with a furious joy (Tenor)

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Part 2: Air and Chorus: Thais led the way (Soprano and Chorus)

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Part 2: Accompagnato and Chorus: Thus, long ago (Tenor)

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Part 2: Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize (Tenor and Bass)

Track length0:22
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Part 2: Let old Timotheus yield the prize (Chorus)

Track length3:49
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