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Alexander's Feast & Concerto grosso F major,op.3 No.4a by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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• Artist:Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• Media:Audio CD
• Label: Warner Classics
• Released: 01 June 2009
• Barcode: 0825646905621
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• • Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Overture
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""'Twas at the royal feast, for Persia won by Philip's warlike son"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""Happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair"" [Tenor] ""Happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair"" [Tenor, Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""Timotheus, plac'd on high amid the tuneful quire"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The song began from Jove"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound"" [Chorus]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""With ravish'd ears the monarch hears"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""Bacchus, ever fair and young"" [Chorus] ""Bacchus' blessings are a treasure"" [Bass]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""He chose a mournful Muse"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""He sung Darius, great and good, by too severe a fate fall'n"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""Behold Darius, great and good, by too severe a fate fall'n"" [Chorus]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The mighty master smil'd to see that Love was in the next degree"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""Softly sung in Lydian measures soon he sooth'd the soul"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""War, he sung, is toil and trouble"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The many rend the skies with loud applause"" [Chorus]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The Prince, unable to conceal his pain"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 1 ""The many rend the skies with loud applause"" [Chorus]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Now strike the golden Lyre again!"" [Chorus] ""Break his bands of sleep asunder... Hark, hark! the horrid sound"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries"" [Bass]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Give the vengeance due to the valiant crew"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""The princes applaud with a furious joy"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Thais led the way, to light him to his prey"" [Chorus] ""The princes applaud with a furious joy"" [Soprano]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Thus, long ago, ere heaving Bellows learned to blow"" [Chorus] ""At last divine Cecilia came, inventress of the vocal frame"" [Tenor]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Let old Timotheus yield the prize"" [Tenor, Bass]"
  • "Handel : Alexander's Feast HWV75 : Part 2 ""Let old Timotheus yield the prize, or both divide the crown"" [Soprano, Tenor, Bass, Chorus]"
  • Anon : Concerto grosso in F major Op.3 No.4b : I Largo
  • Anon : Concerto grosso in F major Op.3 No.4b : II Allegro
  • Anon : Concerto grosso in F major Op.3 No.4b : III Largo
  • Anon : Concerto grosso in F major Op.3 No.4b : IV Allegro