Handel - Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

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Handel - Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

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Carus

Catalogue No:

CARUS83424

Discs:

2

Release date:

15th June 2009

Barcode:

4009350834248

Length:

2 hours 15 minutes

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SACD (download also available)

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Hybrid Multi-channel
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Handel - Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day

Handel:

Alexander's Feast

Ode for St Cecilia's Day, HWV76

Simone Kermes, Virgil Hartinger & Konstantin Wolff

Cologne Chamber Choir & Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann

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George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75

playPart I: Overture

playPart I: Recitative: "Twas at the Royal Feast (Tenor)

playPart I: Aria: Happy, happy, happy pair! (Tenor, Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Timotheus plac'd on high (Tenor)

playPart I: Accompanied: The song began from Jove (Soprano)

playPart I: The list'ning crowd admiring the lofty sound (Chorus)

playPart I: Air: With ravish'd ears (Soprano)

playPart I: Recitative: The praise of Bacchus (Tenor)

playPart I: Air: Bacchus, ever fair (Bass) - Bacchus' blessing are a treasure (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: Sooth'd with the sound (Tenor)

playPart I: Accompanied: He chose a mournful muse (Soprano)

playPart I: Air: He sung Darius Great and Good (Soprano)

playPart I: Accompanied: With downcast looks the joyless victor sate (Soprano)

playPart I: Behold Darius, great and good (Chorus)

playPart I: Recitative: The mighty master smil'd to see (Tenor)

playPart I: Arioso: Softly sweet, in Lydian measures (Soprano)

playPart I: Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble (Soprano)

playPart I: The many rend the skies (Chorus)

playPart I: Air: The Prince, unable to conceal his pain (Soprano)

playPart I: The many rend the skies (Chorus)

playPart II: Accompanied: Now strike the Golden Lyre (Tenor) - Break his bands of sleep (Chorus) - Accompanied: Hark! hark! (Tenor)

playPart II: Air: Revenge, Timotheus cries (Bass)

playPart II: Accompanied: Give the Vengeance due (Tenor)

playPart II: Air: The princes applaud with a furious Joy (Tenor)

playPart II: Air: Thais led the way (Soprano) - The princess applaud with furious joy (Chorus)

playPart II: Accompanied: Thus long ago (Tenor) - At last divine Cecilia came (Chorus)

playPart II: Recitative: Let old Timotheus yield the prize (Tenor, Bass)

playPart II: Let old Timotheus yield the Prize (Chorus)

George Frideric Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76

playOverture: Menuet

playRecitative: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony (Tenor) - Accompanied: When nature, underneath a heap (Tenor)

playFrom harmony, from heav'nly harmony (Chorus)

playAir: What passion cannot Music raise (Soprano)

playAir: The trumpet's loud clangour (Tenor, Chorus)

playMarch

playAir: The soft complaining Flute (Soprano)

playAir: Sharp Violins proclaim (Tenor)

playAir: But oh! what art can teach (Soprano)

playAir: Orpheus could lead the savage race (Soprano)

playAccompanied: But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r (Soprano)

playAir: As from the pow'r of sacred lays (Chorus)

BBC Music Magazine

September 2009

*****

“Neumann's forces respond magnificently. Solo voices have a rare, natural ease. In Alexander's Feast, Simone Kermes's accompanied recitative… is breathtaking; Konstantin Wolff is thrilling in 'Revenge Timotheus cries' and terrifyingly evocative as bassoons conjure up 'a ghastly band [of ghosts]'... The clarity...27 voices, while the orchestra, similarly proportioned, is splendidly taut. In short, this recording is an outstanding contribution to the Handel anniversary celebrations.”

Gramophone Magazine

Awards Issue 2009

“Collegium Cartusianum play with suppleness, unforced strength in extrovert numbers and sensitivity in quieter and more lyrical moments… Simone Kermes's melancholic delivery of the pitiful "He chose a mournful muse" is breathtaking… The Cologne Chamber Choir is excellent: the voices in the opening phrase of "The list'ning crowd" seem to float effortlessly... "Break his bands of sleep asunder" is sensational and the falling cadences evoking "heav'nly harmony" are beautifully balanced during the first chorus of the shorter ode.”

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