Handel: Alexander's Feast

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Release Date: 27th Nov 2006
Catalogue No: 4220532
Label: Philips
Length: 97 minutes

Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1

Work length55:29

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Nigel Robson (tenor), Donna Brown (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1987-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

Overture

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"T'was at the royal feast"

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"Happy, happy, happy pair!"

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"Timotheus placed on high"

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"The song began from Jove"

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"The listening crowd admired the lofty sound"

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"With ravish'd ears"

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"The praise of Bacchus then"

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"Bacchus, ever fair and young"

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"Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain"

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"He chose a mournful Muse"

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"He sung Darius, great and good"

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"With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"

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"Behold Darius great and good"

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"The mighty master smiled to see"

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"Softly sweet in Lydian measures"

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"War, he sung, is toil and trouble"

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"The many rend the skies with loud applause"

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"The prince, unable to conceal his pain"

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"The many rend the skies with loud applause"

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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 'Alexander's Feast'

Work length12:51

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English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1987-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

1. Allegro

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2. Largo - Adagio

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3. Allegro - Adagio

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4. Andante non presto

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2

Work length29:47

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Ashley Stafford (countertenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Carolyn Watkinson (contralto), Donna Brown (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded: 1987-06
Recording Venue: Stadthalle, Göttingen

"Now strike the golden lyre again...Break his bond...Hark, hark! The horrid sound"

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"Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries...Behold, a ghastly band"

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"Give the vengeance due"

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"The princes applaud with a furious joy"

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"Thaïs led the way...The princes applaud"

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"Thus, long ago"

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"At last divine Cecilia came"

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"Your voices tune, and raise them high"

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"Let's imitate her notes above!"

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"Let old Timotheus yield the prize"

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"Let old Timotheus yield the prize"

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Handel: Alexander's Feast

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