Alexander's Feast, HWV 75

Album by George Frideric Handel & Carolyn Watkinson & Nigel Robson & Donna Brown & Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe & English Baroque Soloists & Monteverdi Choir & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Alexander's Feast, HWV 75 is an ode by Georg Friedrich Händel, composed and first performed in 1736. The work sets an English ode for soloists, chorus and orchestra, blending operatic arias, recitative and substantial choral writing to explore the dramatic effects of music, and it sits within Handel's mid-career turn towards English-texted large-scale vocal works that anticipated his later oratorios.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Alexander’s Feast: Overture. (Larghetto e staccato) – Allegro – Adagio
    6:12
  2. 2.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “’Twas at the Royal Feast”
    0:49
  3. 3.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Happy, Happy, Happy Pair!”
    4:45
  4. 4.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Timotheus Placed on High”
    0:19
  5. 5.
    Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “The Song Began From Jove”
    0:19
  6. 6.
    Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Listening Crowd Admired the Lofty Sound!”
    2:16
  7. 7.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air. “With Ravish’d Cars”
    3:25
  8. 8.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Praise of Bacchus Then”
    0:29
  9. 9.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young”
    4:40
  10. 10.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Soothed With the Sound, the King Grew Vain”
    0:34
  11. 11.
    Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “He Chose a Mournful Muse”
    1:20
  12. 12.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air. “He Sung Darius, Great and Good”
    3:20
  13. 13.
    Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate”
    0:53
  14. 14.
    Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “Behold Darius Great and Good”
    3:06
  15. 15.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Mighty Master Smiled to See”
    0:28
  16. 16.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air. “Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures”
    3:00
  17. 17.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air. “War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble”
    5:19
  18. 18.
    Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause”
    3:56
  19. 19.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain”
    6:05
  20. 20.
    Alexander’s Feast: Chorus (da capo). “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause”
    4:02

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. I. Allegro
    3:31
  2. 3.
    Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. II. Largo
    1:51
  3. 4.
    Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. III. Allegro
    3:25
  4. 5.
    Alexander’s Feast: Concerto Grosso in C. IV. Andante non presto
    4:06
  5. 6.
    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”
    2:20
  6. 7.
    Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries” 2. Accompanied Recitative. “Behold, a Ghastly Band”
    5:06
  7. 8.
    Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Give the Vengeance Due”
    1:46
  8. 9.
    Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy”
    2:07
  9. 10.
    Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Thaïs Led the Way” 2.Chorus. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy”
    5:27
  10. 11.
    Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Thus, Long Ago”
    2:47
  11. 12.
    Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “At Last Divine Cecilia Came”
    3:08
  12. 13.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Your Voices Tune, and Raise Them High”
    0:32
  13. 14.
    Alexander’s Feast: Duet. “Let’s Imitate Her Notes Above!”
    2:28
  14. 15.
    Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize”
    0:20
  15. 16.
    Alexander’s Feast: “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize”
    3:46

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