Georg Friedrich Händel: Alexander's Feast on 2 Super Audio CDs
Alexander's Feast
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- Sound Format:
- stereo & multichannel (Hybrid)
- Artists:
- Dorothee Mields, Judith Berning, Paul Agnew, Woong-jo Choi, Aachener Kammerchor, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Marcus Bosch
- Label:
- Coviello
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2004
- Item number:
- 1655366
- UPC/EAN:
- 4039956307150
- Release date:
- 1.10.2007
Alexander’s Feast or The Power of Music markiert die Hinwendung Händels zum englischen Oratorium, also weg von der in London kriselnden italienischen Oper. Nach seinen sehr guten Erfahrungen mit Oratorienaufführungen in der Saison 1735, wollte der geschäftstüchtige Händel auch die nächste Spielzeit mit einem neuen Oratorium eröffnen. Drydens ursprünglich als Cäcilienode konzipierter Text inspirierte Händel zu großartiger Musik. Marcus Bosch, Deutschlands derzeit erfolgreichster GMD, gelingt hier für das Label Coviello eine Einspielung, die den im Werktitel angedeutete »Macht der Musik« wirkungsvoll vermittelt.
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Tracklisting
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 2 (SACD)
Das Alexanderfest oder Die Macht der Musik
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1 Ouvertüre
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2 Ouvertüre: Text
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3 Ouvertüre: Andante
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4 'T was at the royal feast
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5 Happy, happy, happy pair
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6 Timotheus, plac'd on high
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7 The song began from Jove
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8 The list'ning crowd
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9 With ravish'd ears the monarch hears
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10 The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung
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11 Bacchus, ever fair and young
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12 Sooth'd with the sound
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13 He chose a mournful Muse
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14 He sung Darius, great and good
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15 With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
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16 Behold, Darius great and good
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17 The mighty master smil'd to see
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18 Softly sweet in Lydian measures
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19 War, he sung, is toil and trouble
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20 The many rend the skies
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21 The prince, unable to conceal his pain
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22 The many rend the skies
Disk 2 von 2 (SACD)
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1 Now strike the golden
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2 Revenge, Timotheus cries
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3 Behold, a ghastly band
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4 Aria da capo
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5 Give the vengeance due to the valiant crew
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6 The princes applaud with a furious joy
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7 Thais led the way
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8 Coro
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9 Thus, long ago, ere heaving Bellows learn'd to blow
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10 Coro
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11 Let old Timotheus yield the prize
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12 Let old Timotheus yield the prize
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