Richard Neville-Towle, Ludus Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2010)
Richard Neville-Towle, Ludus Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 82:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34094 | Recorded: 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 436 Mb | Total time: 82:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34094 | Recorded: 2010
Handel's musical illustration of Dryden's Alexander's Feast, first performed in 1736, was a critical and popular success. A day after the première, the London Daily Post reported 'Never was upon the like Occasion so numerous and splendid an Audience at any Theatre in London, there being at least 1300 Persons present'.
Twice a year some of the UK's finest baroque players and young vocal soloists come together in Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk to give sell-out concerts of the great works of Bach and Handel. The chorus, handpicked by Will Dawes, comprises a sensational selection of singers from Britain’s finest early music consorts, including the Monteverdi Choir, the Sixteen, Polyphony and the Gabrieli and King’s Consorts.
Ludus Baroque's appearances are unmissable events in Edinburgh's calendar. Now for the first time listeners from further afield can experience the vibrancy of their Festival-fuelled performances in this their debut recording. Alexander's Feast is the perfect showpiece for the vitality and abandon of Ludus Baroque and their rising-star soloists.
Performer:
Sophie Bevan, soprano
Ed Lyon, tenor
William Berger, bass
Ludus Baroque
Richard Neville-Towle, conductor
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Alexander's Feast, HWV 75
CD1:
Part One
01. Ouverture
02. Recitative (tenor) ‘Twas at the royal feast
03. Air (soprano / tenor) and Chorus Happy, happy, happy pair!
04. Recitative (tenor) Timotheus, plac’d on high
05. Recitative (soprano) The song began from Jove
06. Chorus The list’ning crowd admire the lofty sound
07. Air (soprano) With ravish’d ears the monarch hears
08. Recitative (tenor) The praise of Bacchus
09. Air (bass) and Chorus Bacchus, ever fair and young
10. Recitative (tenor) Sooth’d with the sound, the king grew vain
11. Recitative (soprano) He chose a mournful Muse
12. Air (soprano) He sung Darius, great and good
13. Recitative (soprano) With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
14. Chorus Behold Darius great and good
15. Recitative (tenor) The mighty master smil’d to see
16. Arioso (soprano) Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17. Air (tenor) War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18. Chorus The many rend the skies with loud applause
19. Air (soprano) The prince, unable to conceal his pain
CD2:
Part Two
01. Recitative (tenor) and Chorus Now strike the golden Lyre again
02. Air (bass) Revenge, Timotheus cries
03. Recitative (tenor) Give the vengeance due
04. Air (tenor) The princes applaud with a furious joy
05. Air (soprano) and Chorus Thais led the way
06. Recitative (tenor) Thus, long ago
07. Grand Chorus At last divine Cecilia came
08. Recitative (tenor / bass) Let old Timotheus yield the prize
09. Chorus Let old Timotheus yield the prize
10. Chorus Your voices tune, and raise them high
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Richard Neville-Towle, Ludus Baroque - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2010)
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