Handel: Alexander's Feast
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Handel: Alexander's Feast

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

1988-01-01 35 tracks ℗ 1988 Universal International Music B.V.

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Tracks

1 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: Overture 6:12
2 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "T'was at the royal feast" 0:49
3 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Happy, happy, happy pair!" 4:45
4 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Timotheus placed on high" 0:19
5 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The song began from Jove" 0:49
6 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" 2:15
7 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "With ravish'd ears" 3:25
8 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The praise of Bacchus then" 0:28
9 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Bacchus, ever fair and young" 4:40
10 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" 0:33
11 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "He chose a mournful Muse" 1:20
12 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "He sung Darius, great and good" 3:01
13 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" 0:52
14 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Behold Darius great and good" 3:06
15 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The mighty master smiled to see" 0:28
16 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" 3:00
17 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" 5:19
18 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause" 3:56
19 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" 6:05
20 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause" 4:02
21 Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": I. Allegro 3:31
22 Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": II. Largo - Adagio 1:50
23 Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": III. Allegro - Adagio 3:25
24 Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": IV. Andante non Presto 4:06
25 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Now strike the golden lyre again" - "Break his bond" "Hark, hark! the horrid sound" 2:20
26 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - "Behold, a ghastly band" 5:05
27 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Give the vengeance due" 1:46
28 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "The princes applaud with a furious joy" 2:07
29 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Thaïs led the way" - "The princes applaud" 5:26
30 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Thus, long ago" 2:47
31 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "At last divine Cecilia came" 3:07
32 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Your voices tune, and raise them high" 0:31
33 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Let's imitate her notes above!" 2:28
34 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" 0:19
35 Alexander's Feast, Pt. 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" 3:46

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