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COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Alexander's Feast
TRACKS:
Alexander's Feast : Overture / 't was at the royal feast / Happy pair! / Timotheus plac'd on high / The song began from Jove / The list'ning crowd / With ravish'd ears / The praise of Bacchus / Bacchus ever fair and young / Sooth'd with the sound / He chose a mournful Muse / He sung Darius great and good / With downcast looks / Behold Darius great and good / The mighty master mild smil'd to see / Softly sweet in Lydian measures / War he sung is toil and trouble / The many rend the skies / The prince unable to conceal / The many rend the skies Part II / Now strike the golden Lyre again / Revenge Timotheus cries / Give this vengeance due / The princes applaud / Thais led the way / Thus long ago / Let old Timotheus yield the prize / Let old Timotheus Yield the prize / Your voices tune / Let's imitate her notes above / Your voices tune and raise. The Choice of Hercules : Symphony / See Hercules / Come Blooming boy / There the brisk sparkling nectar drain / While for thy arms that Beauty glows / Away mistaken wretch away / This menly youth's exalted mind / Rise youth! exalt thyself and me / Go assert thy hean'nly race / In peace in war / So shalt thou gain immortal praise / Hearst thou what dangers / Turn thee youth to Joy and Love / Short is my way - Oh cease enchanting Siren / Yet can I hear that dulcet lay / Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove / Oh! wither Reason dost thou fly? / Where shall I go? / Mount mount the steep ascent! / Mount mount the steep ascent / Arise Arise / The sounds breathe fire celestial / Lead Goddess lead the way / Virtue will place three.
ORCHESTRA:
English Chamber Orchestra and
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
CONDUCTOR:
Philip Ledger
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CATALOGUE NR: 6285202