Handel: alexander's feast
(2010)

eMusic

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Decca : Made available through hoopla, 2010
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 37 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
0028942205321 (sound recording : hoopla Music) MWT10955971, 10955971
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Mode of access: World Wide Web

CONTENTS
Overture (6:12) -- "T'was at the royal feast" (0:49) -- "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (4:45) -- "Timotheus placed on high" (0:19) -- "The song began from Jove" (0:49) -- "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" (2:15) -- "With ravish'd ears" (3:25) -- "The praise of Bacchus then" (0:28) -- "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (4:40) -- "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" (0:33) -- "He chose a mournful Muse" (1:20) -- "He sung Darius, great and good" (3:01) -- "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (0:52) -- "Behold Darius great and good" (3:06) -- "The mighty master smiled to see" (0:28) -- "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (2:59) -- "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (5:19) -- "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (3:56) -- "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (6:05) -- "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (4:02) -- 1. Allegro (3:31) -- 2. Largo - Adagio (1:50) -- 3. Allegro - Adagio (3:25) -- 4. Andante non presto (4:06) -- "Now strike the golden lyre again" - "Break his bond" "Hark, hark! The horrid sound" (2:20) -- "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" - "Behold, a ghastly band" (5:05) -- "Give the vengeance due" (1:46) -- "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (2:07) -- "Thais led the way" - "The princes applaud" (5:26) -- "Thus, long ago" (2:47) -- "At last divine Cecilia came" (3:07) -- "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (0:31) -- "Let's imitate her notes above!" (2:28) -- "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (0:19) -- "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (3:46)

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