Haendel : Alexander's Feast

Album by Philip Ledger.

Release date: 2010-04-05

Tracks (50)

  1. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Overture
  2. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Air and Chorus. "Thais Led the Way" - "The Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy"
  3. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "T'was at the Royal Feast, for Persia Won by Philip's Warlike Son"
  4. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Accompagnato and Chorus. "Thus, Long Ago, Ere Heaving Bellows" - "At Last Divine Cecilia Came"
  5. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air and Chorus. "Happy Pair !"
  6. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Recitative and Duet. "Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize"
  7. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "Timotheus, Plac'd on High"
  8. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Recitative, Air and Chorus. "Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize"
  9. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "The Song Began from Jove"
  10. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Chorus. "Your Voices Tune"
  11. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus. "The List'ning Crowd Admire the Lofty Sound"
  12. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Duet. "Let's Imitate Her Notes Above"
  13. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air. "With Ravish'd Ears the Monarch Hears"
  14. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Chorus. "Your Voices Tune and Raise"
  15. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "The Praise of Bacchus Then the Sweet Musician Sung"
  16. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Symphony
  17. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air and Chorus. "Bacchus, ever Fair and Young" - "Bacchus' Blessings are a Treasure"
  18. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Accompagnato. "See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain" (Pleasure)
  19. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "Sooth'd with the Sound"
  20. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Come, Blooming Boy" (Pleasure)
  21. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "He Choose a Mournful Muse"
  22. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "There the brisk sparkling nectar drain" (Pleasure)
  23. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air. "He Sung Darius, Great and Good"
  24. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Solo and Chorus. "While for thy arms that Beauty glows" (Pleasure, Chorus)
  25. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate"
  26. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Away, mistaken wretch, away" (Virtue)
  27. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus. "Behold Darius Great and Good"
  28. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "This manly youth's exalted mind" (Virtue)
  29. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "The Mighty Master Smiled to See"
  30. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me" (Virtue)
  31. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air. "Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures"
  32. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Go, assert thy heav'nly race" (Virtue)
  33. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air. "War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble"
  34. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "In peace, in war" (Virtue)
  35. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus. "The Many Rend the Skies with Loud Applause"
  36. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Solo and Chorus. "So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise" (Virtue, Chorus)
  37. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air. "The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain"
  38. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Hearst thou, what dangers" (Pleasure)
  39. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus da capo. "The Many Rend the Skies with Loud Applause"
  40. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Solo and Chorus. "Turn thee, youth, to joy and love" (Pleasure, Chorus)
  41. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Accompagnato and Chorus. "Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again" - "Break His Bonds of Sleep Asunder" - "Hark, Hark !"
  42. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Short is my way" (Pleasure, Hercules)
  43. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Air. "Revenge, Timotheus Cries"
  44. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Yet Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay" (Hercules)
  45. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Accompagnato. "Give the Vengeance Due to the Valiant Crew"
  46. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove" (Attendant)
  47. Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Air. "The Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy"
  48. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Oh! wither, Reason, dost thou fly?" (Hercules)
  49. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Trio. "Where shall I go?" (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules)
  50. Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Mount, mount the steep ascent!" (Virtue)

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