Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Handel-Festspielorchester Halle, Thomas Sanderling - Handel: Alexander's Feast (1997)
Artist: Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Handel-Festspielorchester Halle, Thomas Sanderling
Title: Handel: Alexander's Feast
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Berlin Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:37:10
Total Size: 518 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Handel: Alexander's Feast
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Berlin Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:37:10
Total Size: 518 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
CD1
01. PARTE I. Ouvertüre
02. Rezitativ (Tenor): 'Beim königlichen Fest'
03. Arie (Tenor): 'Selig, selig, selig Paar!'
04. Rezitativ (Tenor): 'Timotheus tritt hervor'
05. Accompagnato (Sopran): 'Von Zeus erzählt sein Lied'
06. Chor: 'Es lauscht die Schar der Sage voller Glück'
07. Arie (Sopran): 'Vom Ruhm berauscht'
08. Rezitativ (Tenor): 'Er stimmt den Lobgesang'
09. Arie (Baß) und Chor: 'Bacchus, ewig schön und jung'
10. Rezitativ (Tenor): 'Stolz folgt der Held'
11. Accompagnato (Sopran): 'Er wählt ein Lied voll Schmerz'
12. Arie (Sopran): 'Er kündet von Darius’ Tod'
13. Accompagnato (Sopran): 'Das Haupt gebeugt, sitzt nun der Held'
14. Chor: 'Seht an Darius groß und gut'
15. Rezitativ (Tenor): 'Der Sänger lächelt, weil er spürt'
16. Arioso (Sopran): 'Hold ertönt, gedämpft und leis'
17. Arie (Sopran): 'Waffenhandwerk schafft nur Unheil'
CD2
01. Chor: 'Ein lauter Jubelruf'
02. Arie (Sopran) und Chor: 'Der Fürst verhehlt nicht länger seine Pein' - 18. Chor (da capo): 'Ein lauter Jubelruf'
03. PARTE II. Accompagnato (Tenor) und Chor: 'Laß tönen deiner Leier Klang'
04. Arie (Baß): 'Nimm Rach''
05. Accompagnato (Tenor): 'Rache schuldest du Deinem kühner Heer!'
06. Arie (Tenor): 'Der Beifall der Krieger dröhnt wild entflammt'
07. Arie (Sopran) und Chor: 'Thaïs geht voran' - 'Der Beifall der Krieger dröhnt wild entflammt'
08. Accompagnato (Tenor) und Chor: 'Vor langer Zeit' - 'Dann kam Cäcilia engelgleich'
09. Rezitativ (Tenor, Baß): 'Leg ab, Timotheus'
10. Chor (Baß, Tenor, Alt, Sopran, Chor): 'Leg ab, Timotheus'
Alexander's Feast (HWV 75) is an ode with music by George Frideric Handel set to a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton adapted his libretto from John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music (1697) which had been written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke (whose score is now lost) set the original ode to music.
Handel composed the music in January 1736, and the work received its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 19 February 1736.
The work describes a banquet held by Alexander the Great and his mistress Thaïs in the captured Persian city of Persepolis, during which the musician Timotheus sings and plays his lyre, arousing various moods in Alexander until he is finally incited to burn the city down in revenge for his dead Greek soldiers.
The piece was a great success and it encouraged Handel to make the transition from writing Italian operas to English choral works. The soloists at the premiere were the sopranos Anna Maria Strada and Cecilia Young, the tenor John Beard, and a bass called Erard (first name unknown).
Handel composed the music in January 1736, and the work received its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 19 February 1736.
The work describes a banquet held by Alexander the Great and his mistress Thaïs in the captured Persian city of Persepolis, during which the musician Timotheus sings and plays his lyre, arousing various moods in Alexander until he is finally incited to burn the city down in revenge for his dead Greek soldiers.
The piece was a great success and it encouraged Handel to make the transition from writing Italian operas to English choral works. The soloists at the premiere were the sopranos Anna Maria Strada and Cecilia Young, the tenor John Beard, and a bass called Erard (first name unknown).
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