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Handel: Alexander's Feast & The Choice of Hercules

Helen Donath, Robert Tear, Sally Burgess, Thomas Allen, Heather Harper, Helen Watts, James Bowman

English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Philip Ledger

Arias from two distinguished teams...and King's Choir is still attractively fresh. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 3 out of 5 stars
  • Release Date: 5th Apr 2010
  • Catalogue No: 6285202
  • Label: Erato
  • Series: Veritas
  • Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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Contents

Handel: Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster)

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  • Robert Tear (tenor), Helen Donath (soprano), Thomas Allen (bass-baritone), Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano)
  • English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Philip Ledger
  • Recorded: 1978-06-28
  • Recording Venue: Kings College Chapel

Overture

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`t was at the royal feast

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Happy pair!

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Timotheus, plac`d on high

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The song began from Jove

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The list`ning crowd

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With ravish`d ears

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The praise of Bacchus

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Bacchus, ever fair and young

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Sooth`d with the sound

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He chose a mournful Muse

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He sung Darius, great and good

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With downcast looks

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Behold Darius great and good

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The mighty master, mild smil`d to see

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Softly sweet in Lydian measures

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War, he sung, is toil and trouble

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The many rend the skies

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The prince, unable to conceal

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The many rend the skies Part II

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Now strike the golden Lyre again

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Revenge Timotheus cries

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Give this vengeance due

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The princes applaud

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Thais led the way

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Thus, long ago

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Let old Timotheus yield the prize

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Let old Timotheus Yield the prize

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Your voices tune

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Let`s imitate her notes above

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Your voices tune and raise

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Handel: The Choice of Hercules

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  • Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (soprano), Helen Watts (mezzo-soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), Robert Tear (tenor)
  • Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of King's College Cambridge
  • Philip Ledger
  • Recorded: 1974-12-10
  • Recording Venue: King`s College Chapel, Cambridge

Symphony

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See, Hercules

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Come, Blooming boy

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There the brisk sparkling nectar drain

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While for thy arms that Beauty glows

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Away, mistaken wretch, away

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This menly youth`s exalted mind

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Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me

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Go, assert thy hean`nly race

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In peace, in war

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So shalt thou gain immortal praise

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Hearst thou, what dangers

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Turn thee, youth, to Joy and Love

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Short is my way - Oh cease, enchanting Siren

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Yet can I hear that dulcet lay

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Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove

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Oh! wither, Reason, dost thou fly?

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Where shall I go?

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Mount, mount the steep ascent!

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Mount, mount the steep ascent

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Arise, Arise

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The sounds breathe fire celestial

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Lead, Goddess, lead the way

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Virtue will place three

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