Handel: Alexander’s Feast & Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Knut Schoch (tenor) & Klaus Mertens (bass)
Junge Kantorei & Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra, Joachim Carlos Martini
The performance is characterised by an austerity of tone that speaks volumes in the closing sections, when worldliness gives way to spirituality...The playing is spare, stylish and beautiful.... — More…
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Handel: Alexander's Feast
- Knut Schoch (tenor), Klaus Mertens (bass), Gerlinde Samann (soprano)
- Junge Kantorei, Frankfurt Baroque Orchestra
- Joachim Carlos Martini
- Recorded: 11 May 2008
- Recording Venue: Basilika Kloster Eberbach, Rheingau, Germany
Part 1: Overture
Part 1: Recitative: 'Twas at the royal feast (Tenor)
Part I: Air: Happy, happy, happy pair (Tenor, Chorus)