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Handel: Alceste

Lucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)

Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

Curnyn's delicious recording of the surviving score is amplified with a sinfonia from Admeto and a passacaglia from Radamisto. These fizzily, sexily swung orchestral additions emphasise the... More…
  • Presto Recording of the Week
    14th May 2012
  • BBC Music Magazine
    July 2012
    Opera Choice
  • Gramophone Magazine
    August 2012
    Editor's Choice
  • BBC Music Magazine Awards
    2013
    Opera Award Winner

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Contents

Handel: Alceste

Work length1:03:04
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  • Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company, Benjamin Hulett, Elizabeth Weisberg, Lucy Crowe, Andrew Foster-Williams, Siân Menna, Early Opera Company Chorus

I. Ouverture

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II. Grand Entrée

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III. Ye happy people (Tenor)

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IV. Triumph, Hymen, in the pair (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Chorus)

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V. Still caressing, and caress'd (Soprano, Chorus)

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VI. Ye swift minutes as ye fly (Tenor)

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VII. O bless, ye pow'rs above (Chorus)

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VIII. Gentle Morpheus, son of light'. Largo e mezzo piano - That when bright Aurora's beams (Soprano)

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Sinfonia from Admeto, re di Tessaglia, HWV 22

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IX. Ye fleeting shades, I come (Bass)

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X. Thrice happy who in life excel (Chorus)

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XI. Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (Tenor)

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Passacaille from Radamisto, HWV 12a

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Si replica il Coro precedente "Thrice happy"

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XII. Come, Fancy, empress of the brain (Soprano)

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XIII. He comes, he rises from below (Tenor)

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XIV. All hail, thou mighty son of Jove! (Chorus)

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XV. Symphony

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XVI. From high Olympus' top, the seat of God (Tenor)

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XVII. Tune your harps, all ye Nine (Tenor)

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XVIII. Ballo Primo

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XIX. L'Ultimo Ballo

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XX. Triumph, thou son of Jove (Chorus)

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