747313222476

Handel: Alexander's Feast

Frankfurt Bo:Martini

£11.49
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Format: CD

Cat No: 8572224

Release Date:  01 February 2010

Label:  Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  747313222476

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Handel

  • Description

    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's 1697 poem Alexander's Feast evokes the power of music to stir the soul to acts of love and war, revenge and revels. This splendid oratorio, set at Alexander the Great's victory celebrations for his conquest of Persia, culminates in an apotheosis to 'divine Cecilia', the patron saint of music whom Handel also praises in his Ode for St Cecilia's Day of 1739 (Naxos 8.554752).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Ouverture
      • 2. 'Twas at the Royal Feast
      • 3. Happy Pair!
      • 4. Timotheus, Plac'd On High
      • 5. The Song Began from Jove
      • 6. The List'ning Crowd Admired the Lofty Sound
      • 7. With Ravish'd Ears, the Monarch Hears
      • 8. The Praise of Bacchus
      • 9. Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young
      • 10. Sooth'd With the Sound
      • 11. He Chose a Mournful Muse
      • 12. He Sung Darius, Great and Good
      • 13. With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate
      • 14. Behold Darius Great and Good
      • 15. The Mighty Master Smiled to See
      • 16. Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures
      • 17. War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble
      • 18. The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause
      • 19. The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain
      • 20. The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause
      • 21. Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again!
      • 22. Revenge, Timotheus Cries
      • 23. Give the Vengeance Due to the Valiant Crew!
      • 24. The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy
      • 25. Thais Led the Way
      • 26. Thus, Long Ago
      • 27. Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize
      • 28. Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize

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