Handel: Alexander's Feast

Sophie Bevan, William Berger, Ed Lyon, Ludus Baroque & Richard Neville-Towle

2011-02-28 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, Overture
  5:38
• 2
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "'Twas at the royal feast" (Recitative)
  0:50
• 3
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Air & Chorus)
  4:34
• 4
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Timortheus, plac'd on high" (Recitative)
  0:54
• 5
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The song began from Jove" (Recitative)
  1:14
• 6
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound" (Chorus)
  2:08
• 7
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "With ravish'd ears the monarch hears" (Air)
  3:16
• 8
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The praise of Bacchus" (Recitative)
  0:34
• 9
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Air & Chorus)
  4:32
• 10
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain" (Recitative)
  0:42
• 11
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "He chose a mournful Muse" (Recitative)
  1:14
• 12
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "He sung Darius, great and good" (Air)
  3:00
• 13
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Recitative)
  0:48
• 14
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Behold Darius great and good" (Chorus)
  2:20
• 15
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The mighty master smil'd to see" (Recitative)
  0:27
• 16
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Arioso)
  3:02
• 17
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Air)
  4:46
• 18
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Chorus)
  3:35
• 19
  Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Air & Chorus)
  9:21
• 1
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Now strike the golden Lyre again" (Recitative & Chorus)
  3:03
• 2
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Revenge, Timotheus cries" (Air)
  7:44
• 3
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Give the vengeance due" (Recitative)
  1:12
• 4
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Air)
  2:17
• 5
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Thais led the way" (Air and Chorus)
  4:60
• 6
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Thus, long ago" (Recitative)
  0:44
• 7
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "At last divine Cecilia came" (Grand Chorus)
  2:58
• 8
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Recitative)
  0:23
• 9
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Chorus)
  3:34
• 10
  Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Chorus)
  2:50