Georg Friedrich Händel: Alexander's Feast (2 CDs)

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Donna Brown, Carolyn Watkinson, Ashley Stafford, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

2 CDs

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+Concerto grosso zu "Das Alexanderfest"

Artists:: Donna Brown, Carolyn Watkinson, Ashley Stafford, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Label:: Philips
Year of recording ca.:: 1987
UPC/EAN:: 0028947577744
Release date:: 25.8.2006
Series:: The Originals

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G. Schubert in FonoForum 3/89:"Die histo- rische Spielweise der Instrumente und die dy- namische Artikulation der Stimmen führen zu musikalisch außerordentlich reichen Ergebnis- sen. Jedes liebevoll ausmusizierte Detail trägt zur Steigerung des Ausdrucks und zur Charak- terisierung der inneren Situation bei."

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

Alexander's Feast (original version)

1 Overture (Part 1)
2 "T'was at the royal feast" (Part 1)
3 "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Part 1)
4 "Timotheus placed on high" (Part 1)
5 "The song began from Jove" (Part 1)
6 "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" (Part 1)
7 "With ravish'd ears" (Part 1)
8 "The praise of Bacchus then" (Part 1)
9 "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Part 1)
10 "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" (Part 1)
11 "He chose a mournful Muse" (Part 1)
12 "He sung Darius, great and good" (Part 1)
13 "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Part 1)
14 "Behold Darius great and good" (Part 1)
15 "The mighty master smiled to see" (Part 1)
16 "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Part 1)
17 "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Part 1)
18 "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Part 1)
19 "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Part 1)
20 "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Part 1)

Disk 2 von 2 (CD)

Concerto Grosso In C, Hwv 318 "alexander's Feast"

1 1. Allegro (Original Version)
2 2. Largo - Adagio (Original Version)
3 3. Allegro - Adagio (Original Version)
4 4. Andante non presto (Original Version)

Alexander's Feast (original version)

5 "Now strike the golden lyre again" - "Break his bond" "Hark, hark! The horrid sound" (Part 2)
6 "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - "Behold, a ghastly band" (Part 2)
7 "Give the vengeance due" (Part 2)
8 "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Part 2)
9 "Thaïs led the way" - "The princes applaud" (Part 2)
10 "Thus, long ago" (Part 2)
11 "At last divine Cecilia came" (Part 2)
12 "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Part 2)
13 "Let's imitate her notes above!" (Part 2)
14 "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Part 2)
15 "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Part 2)