Alexander's Feast Or The Power Of Musick (Ode Wrote In Honour Of St. Cecilia, In Two Parts, HWV 75)
By Georg Friedrich Händel, Gerlinde Sämann, Knut Schoch, Klaus Mertens, Junge Kantorei, Barockorchester Frankfurt, and Joachim Carlos Martini
Tracklist
- Part The First
- Ouvertura
- Recitativo (Tenor) "'Twas At The Royal Feast"
- Aria And Chorus "Happy Pair!"
- Recitative (Tenor) "Timotheus, Plac'd On High"
- Accompagnato (Soprano) "The Song Began From Jove"
- Chorus "The List'ning Crowd Admired The Lofty Sound"
- Aria (Soprano) "With Ravish'd Ears, The Monarch Hears"
- Recitativo (Tenor) "The Praise Of Bacchus"
- Aria (Bass) And Chorus "Bacchus, Ever Fair And Young"
- Recitative (Tenor) "Sooth'd With The Sound"
- Accompagnato (Soprano) "He Chose A Mournful Muse"
- Aria (Soprano) "He Sung Darius, Great And Good"
- Accompagnato (Soprano) "With Downcast Looks The Joyless Victor Sate"
- Chorus "Behold Darius Great And Good"
- Recitativo (Tenor) "The Mighty Master Smiled To See"
- Aria (Soprano) "Softly Sweet In Lydian Measures"
- Aria (Tenor) "War, He Sung, Is Toil And Trouble"
- Chorus "The Many Rend The Skies With Loud Applause"
- Aria (Soprano) "The Prince, Unable To Conceal His Pain"
- Chorus "The Many Rend The Skies With Loud Applause"
- Part The Second
- Accompagnato (Tenor) And Chorus "Now Strike The Golden Lyre Again!"
- Aria (Bass) "Revenge, Timotheus Cries"
- Accompagnato (Tenor) "Give The Vengeance Due To The Valiant Crew!"
- Aria (Tenor) "The Princes Applaud With A Furious Joy"
- Aria (Soprano) And Chorus "Thais Led The Way"
- Accompagnato (Tenor) And Chorus "Thus, Long Ago"
- Recitative (Tenor) "Let Old Timotheus Yield The Prize"
- Chorus "Let Old Timotheus Yield The Prize"