Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner - Handel - Alexanders Feast Concerto Grosso in C Carolyn Watkinson (1988)

Artist: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Title: Handel - Alexanders Feast Concerto / Grosso in C Carolyn Watkinson
Year Of Release: 1988
Label: Philips
Genre: Classical, Choral
Quality: MP3 320 Kbps
Total Time: 55:32 + 42:47
Total Size: 534 Mb
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Tracklist:
CD 1:
1. Alexander's Feast or The Power of Music, HWV 75: Part 1. Overture. (Larghetto e staccato) - Allegro - Adagio - Andante
2. Recitative. 'Twas at the royal feast
3. Air and Chorus. Happy, happy, happy pair!
4. Accompanied recitative. The song began from Jove
5. Chorus. The listening crowd admired the lofty sound!
6. Air. With ravish'd ears
7. Air and Chorus. Bacchus, ever fair and young
8. Recitative. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain
9. Accompanied recitative. He chose a mournful Muse
10. Air. He sung Darius, great and good
11. Accompanied recitative. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
12. Chorus. Behold Darius great and good
13. Air. Softly sweet in Lydian measures
14. Air. War, he sung, is toil and trouble
15. Chorus. The many rend the skies with loud applause
16. Air. The prince, unable to conceal his pain
17. Chorus. The many rend the skies with loud applause
CD 2:
1. Concerto Grosso in C major 'Alexander's Feast' HWV 318: Allegro
2. Largo - Adagio
3. Allegro - Adagio
4. Andante non presto
5. Alexander's Feast or The Power of Music, HWV 75: Part 2. Accompanied recitative with Chorus. Now strike the golden lyre again /
6. Air. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries / Accompanied recitative. Behold
7. Accompanied recitative. Give the vengeance due
8. Air. The princes applaud with a furious joy
9. Accompanied recitative. Thus, long ago
10. Chorus. At last divine Cecilia came
11. Recitative. Your voices tune, and raise them high
12. Duet. Let's imitate her notes above!
13. Let old Timotheus yield the prize
Performers:
Donna Brown, soprano
Carolyn Watkinson, contralto
Ashley Stafford, countertenor
Nigel Robson, tenor
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
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