Handel / Samann / Schoch / Mertens / Fbo / Martini: Alexander's Feast: Power of Musick
Handel / Samann / Schoch / Mertens / Fbo / Martini: Alexander's Feast: Power of Musick
Format: CD
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Artist: Handel / Samann / Schoch / Mertens / Fbo / Martini
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313222476
Genre: Classical
First performed in London in 1736 to an admiring audience of 1,300 people, and enjoying considerable success thereafter. Handel' s, setting of John Dryden' 1697 poem Alexander' Feast evokes the power of music to stir the soul to acts of love and war.
Tracks:
1.1 Part 1: Overture
1.2 Part 1: Recitative: 'Twas at the Royal Feast (Tenor)
1.3 Part I: Air: Happy, Happy, Happy Pair (Tenor, Chorus)
1.4 Part I: Recitative: Timotheus, Plac'd on High (Tenor)
1.5 Part 1: Accompagnato: The Song Began from Jove (Soprano)
1.6 Part 1: The List'ning Crowd (Chorus)
1.7 Part 1: Air: With Ravish'd Ears (Soprano)
1.8 Part 1: Recitative: The Praise of Bacchus (Tenor)
1.9 Part 1: Air and Chorus: Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young (Bass and Chorus)
1.10 Part 1: Recitative: Sooth'd with the Sound (Tenor)
1.11 Part 1: Accompagnato: He Chose a Mournful Muse (Soprano)
1.12 Part 1: Air: He Sung Darius Great and Good (Soprano)
1.13 Part 1: Accompagnato: With Downcast Looks (Soprano)
1.14 Part 1: Behold Darius Great and Good (Chorus)
1.15 Part 1: Recitative: The Mighty Master Smil'd to See (Tenor)
1.16 Part 1: Air: Softly Sweet (Soprano)
1.17 Part 1: Air: War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble (Soprano)
1.18 Part 1: The Many Rend the Skies (Chorus)
1.19 Part 1: Air: The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain (Soprano)
1.20 Part 1: The Many Rend the Skies (Chorus)
1.21 Part 2: Accompagnato and Chorus: Now Strike the Golden Lyre (Tenor and Chorus)
1.22 Part 2: Air: Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries (Bass)
1.23 Part 2: Accompagnato: Give the Vengeance Due (Tenor)
1.24 Part 2: Air: The Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy (Tenor)
1.25 Part 2: Air and Chorus: Thais Led the Way (Soprano and Chorus)
1.26 Part 2: Accompagnato and Chorus: Thus, Long Ago (Tenor)
1.27 Part 2: Recitative: Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize (Tenor and Bass)
1.28 Part 2: Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize (Chorus)
Audio Sample:
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