Handel: Alexander's Feast

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Part I: Overture
• 2. Part I: Recitative: 'T Was at the Royal Feast, for Persia Won
• 3. Part I: Aria: Happy, Happy, Happy Pair!
• 4. Part I: Recitative: Timotheus, Plac'd On High
• 5. Part I: Accompanied: The Song Began from Jove
• 6. Part I: The List'ning Crowd Admire the Lofty Sound
• 7. Part I: Aria: With Ravish'd Ears
• 8. Part I: Recitative: The Praise of Bacchus Then the Sweet Musician Sung
• 9. Part I: Aria: Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young
• 10. Part I: Recitative: Sooth'd With the Sound, the King Grew Vain
• 11. Part I: Accompanied: He Chose a Mournful Muse
• 12. Part I: Aria: He Sung Darius, Great and Good
• 13. Part I: Accompanied: With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate
• 14. Part I: Behold Darius, Great and Good
• 15. Part I: Recitative: The Mighty Master Smil'd to See
• 16. Part I: Arioso: Softly Sweet, in Lydian Measures
• 17. Part I: Aria: War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble
• 18. Part I: The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause
• 19. Part I: Aria: The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain
• 20. Part I: The Many Rend the Skies

Disc 2

• 1. Part II: Accompanied: Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again!
• 2. Part II: Aria: Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries
• 3. Part II: Accompanied: Give the Vengeance Due
• 4. Part II: Aria: The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy
• 5. Part II: Aria: Thais Led the Way
• 6. Part II: Accompanied: Thus Long Ago
• 7. Part II: Recitative: Your Voices Tune, and Raise Them High
• 8. Part II: Duet: Let's Imitate Her Notes Above
• 9. Part II: Recitative: Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize
• 10. Part II: Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize