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HÄNDEL: ALEXANDER'S FEAST

  CD 1:
1. Overture
2. Recitativ (tenor) "'t was at the royal feast"
3. Solo (tenor) och kör "Happy pair!"
4. Recitativ (tenor) "Timotheus, plac'd on high"
5. Accompagnato (sopran) "The song began from love"
6. Kör "The list'ning crowd"
7. Aria (sopran) "With ravish'd ears"
8. Recitativ (tenor) "The praise of Bacchus"
9. Aria (bas) och kör "Bacchus, ever fair and young"
10. Recitativ (tenor) "Sooth'd with the sound"
11. Accompagnato (sopran) "He chose a mournful Muse"
12. Aria (sopran) "He sung Darius, great and good"
13. Accompagnato (sopran) "With downcast looks"
14. Kör "Behold Darius great and good"
15. Recitativ (tenor) "The mighty master"
16. Arioso (sopran) "Softly sweet in Lydian measures"
17. Aria (tenor) "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
18. Kör "The many rend the skies"
19. Aria (sopran) "The Prince, unable to conceal"
20. Kör "The many rend the skies"
  CD 2:
1. Accompagnato (tenor) och kör "Now strike the golden Lyre again!"
2. Aria (bas) "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries"
3. Accompagnato (tenor) "Give the vengeance due"
4. Aria (tenor) "The princes applaud"
5. Aria (sopran) och kör "Thaïs led the way"
6. Accompagnato (tenor) och kör "Thus, long ago"
7. Recitativ (tenor och bas) "Let old Timotheus"
8. Solo (bas, tenor och sopran) och kör "Let old Timotheus yield the prize"
  Concerto grosso F-dur
9. Largo
10. Allegro
11. Largo
12. Allegro

Felicity Palmer, sopran
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
Stephen Roberts, bas
Bachkören
Anders Öhrwall, körinstudering
Concentus musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Inspelningsår: 1977-78

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