Haendel: Alexander’s Feast

Das Alexanderfest oder Die Macht der Musik
Ouverture
Rezitativ: ’twas at the Royal feast
Arie mit Chor: Happy, happy, happy pair!
Rezitativ: Timotheus, plac’d on high
Rezitativ: The song began from Jove
Chor: The list’ning crowd admire the lofty sound
Arie: With ravish’d ears the monarch hears
Rezitativ: The praise of Bacchus
Arie mit Chor: Bacchus, ever fair and young
Rezitativ: Sooth’d with the sound, the king grew vain
Rezitativ: He chose a mournful muse
Arie: He sung Darius, great and good
Rezitativ: With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
Chor: Behold Darius great and good
Rezitativ: The mighty master smil’d to see
Arioso: Softly sweet in lydian measures
Arie: War, he sung, is toil and trouble
Chor: The many rend the skies with loud applause
Arie: The prince, unable to conceal his pain
Rezitativ mit Chor: Now strike the golden lyre again
Arie: Revenge, Timotheus cries
Rezitativ: Give the vengeance due
Arie: The princes applaud with a furious joy
Arie mit Chor: Thais led the way
Rezitativ: Thus, long ago
Chor: At last divine Cecilia came
Rezitativ: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
Chor: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
Chor: Your voices tune, and raise them high

Bevan: Soprano, Lyon: Tenor, Berger / Neville-towle, Richard

Reference: 0034094DCD
Barcode: 0801918340949
Length: 1:22:26
Label: Delphian Records