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Handel: Alexander's Feast

Donna Brown (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)

The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Handel: Alexander's Feast

Handel: Alexander's Feast

Donna Brown (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)

The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1
Work length55:29
Overture
Track length6:12
"T'was at the royal feast"
Track length0:49
"Happy, happy, happy pair!"
Track length4:45
"Timotheus placed on high"
Track length0:19
"The song began from Jove"
Track length0:49
"The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"
Track length2:16
"With ravish'd ears"
Track length3:25
"The praise of Bacchus then"
Track length0:29
"Bacchus, ever fair and young"
Track length4:40
"Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"
Track length0:34
"He chose a mournful Muse"
Track length1:20
"He sung Darius, great and good"
Track length3:02
"With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
Track length0:53
"Behold Darius great and good"
Track length3:06
"The mighty master smiled to see"
Track length0:28
"Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
Track length3:00
"War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
Track length5:19
"The many rend the skies with loud applause"
Track length3:56
"The prince, unable to conceal his pain"
Track length6:05
"The many rend the skies with loud applause"
Track length4:02
Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 'Alexander's Feast'
Work length12:51
1. Allegro
Track length3:29
2. Largo - Adagio
Track length1:51
3. Allegro - Adagio
Track length3:25
4. Andante non presto
Track length4:06
Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2
Work length29:47
"Now strike the golden lyre again...Break his bond...Hark, hark! The horrid sound"
Track length2:20
"Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries...Behold, a ghastly band"
Track length5:06
"Give the vengeance due"
Track length1:46
"The princes applaud with a furious joy"
Track length2:07
"Thaïs led the way...The princes applaud"
Track length5:27
"Thus, long ago"
Track length2:47
"At last divine Cecilia came"
Track length3:08
"Your voices tune, and raise them high"
Track length0:32
"Let's imitate her notes above!"
Track length2:28
"Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
Track length0:20
"Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
Track length3:46
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