Handel: Alexander's Feast

Donna Brown, Carolyn Watkinson, Ashley Stafford, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

35 BRANI • 1 ORA E 38 MINUTI • JAN 01 1988

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: Overture (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

06:12

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "T'was at the royal feast" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:50

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

04:45

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Timotheus placed on high" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:19

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Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV.75 / Part 1: "The song began from Jove" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Donna Brown, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:49

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The listening crowd admired the lofty sound" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

02:16

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "With ravish'd ears" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Donna Brown, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:25

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The praise of Bacchus then" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:29

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

04:40

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:34

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "He chose a mournful Muse" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Carolyn Watkinson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

01:20

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "He sung Darius, great and good" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Carolyn Watkinson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:02

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Carolyn Watkinson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:53

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Behold Darius great and good" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:06

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The mighty master smiled to see" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:28

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:00

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

05:20

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:56

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Donna Brown, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

06:06

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 1: "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Reprise - Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

04:03

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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 1. Allegro (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:31

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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 2. Largo - Adagio (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

01:51

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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 3. Allegro - Adagio (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:25

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Handel: Concerto grosso in C, HWV 318 "Alexander's Feast": 4. Andante non presto (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

04:06

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Now strike the golden lyre again...Break his bond...Hark, hark! The horrid sound" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

02:21

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries...Behold, a ghastly band" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Carolyn Watkinson, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

05:06

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Give the vengeance due" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

01:46

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

02:07

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Thaïs led the way...The princes applaud" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Donna Brown, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

05:27

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Thus, long ago" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

02:47

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "At last divine Cecilia came" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:08

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:32

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Let's imitate her notes above!" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Ashley Stafford, Donna Brown, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

02:28

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

00:20

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Handel: Alexander's Feast / Part 2: "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Live in Göttingen / 1987)

Carolyn Watkinson, Ashley Stafford, Donna Brown, Nigel Robson, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

03:46

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