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Labels: Philips Classics
1 | Alexander’s Feast: Overture. (Larghetto e staccato) – Allegro – Adagio | Georg Friedrich Händel | 6:12 |
2 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “’Twas at the Royal Feast” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:49 |
3 | Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Happy, Happy, Happy Pair!” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:45 |
4 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Timotheus Placed on High” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:19 |
5 | Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “The Song Began From Jove” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:19 |
6 | Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Listening Crowd Admired the Lofty Sound!” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:16 |
7 | Alexander’s Feast: Air. “With Ravish’d Cars” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:25 |
8 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Praise of Bacchus Then” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:29 |
9 | Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:40 |
10 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Soothed With the Sound, the King Grew Vain” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:34 |
11 | Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “He Chose a Mournful Muse” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:20 |
12 | Alexander’s Feast: Air. “He Sung Darius, Great and Good” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:20 |
13 | Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:53 |
14 | Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “Behold Darius Great and Good” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:06 |
15 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Mighty Master Smiled to See” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:28 |
16 | Alexander’s Feast: Air. “Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:00 |
17 | Alexander’s Feast: Air. “War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:19 |
18 | Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:56 |
19 | Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 6:05 |
20 | Alexander’s Feast: Chorus (da capo). “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:02 |
1 | Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. I. Allegro | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:31 |
2 | Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. II. Largo | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:51 |
3 | Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. III. Allegro | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:25 |
4 | Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. IV. Andante non presto | Georg Friedrich Händel | 4:06 |
5 | Alexander’s Feast: 1. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus. “Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again” 2. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus.“Break His Bonds of Sleep Asunder” 3. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus. “Hark, Hark! The Horrid Sound” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:20 |
6 | Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries” 2. Accompanied Recitative. “Behold, a Ghastly Band” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:06 |
7 | Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Give the Vengeance Due” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 1:46 |
8 | Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:07 |
9 | Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Thaïs Led the Way” 2.Chorus. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 5:27 |
10 | Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Thus, Long Ago” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:47 |
11 | Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “At Last Divine Cecilia Came” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:08 |
12 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Your Voices Tune, and Raise Them High” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:32 |
13 | Alexander’s Feast: Duet. “Let’s Imitate Her Notes Above!” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 2:28 |
14 | Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 0:20 |
15 | Alexander’s Feast: “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize” | Georg Friedrich Händel | 3:46 |