Handel: Alexander's Feast

05:38

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "'Twas at the royal feast" (Recitative)

Ed Lyon, Sophie Bevan & Ludus Baroque

00:50

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (Air & Chorus)

04:34

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Timortheus, plac'd on high" (Recitative)

00:54

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The song began from Jove" (Recitative)

01:13

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound" (Chorus)

02:08

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "With ravish'd ears the monarch hears" (Air)

03:15

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The praise of Bacchus" (Recitative)

William Berger & Ludus Baroque

00:34

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (Air & Chorus)

04:32

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain" (Recitative)

00:42

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "He chose a mournful Muse" (Recitative)

01:14

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "He sung Darius, great and good" (Air)

03:00

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate" (Recitative)

00:47

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Behold Darius great and good" (Chorus)

02:20

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The mighty master smil'd to see" (Recitative)

Chris Suckling, Sophie Bevan & Ludus Baroque

00:26

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "Softly sweet in Lydian measures" (Arioso)

03:01

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "War, he sung, is toil and trouble" (Air)

04:45

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The many rend the skies with loud applause" (Chorus)

03:34

Alexander's Feast: Part One, "The prince, unable to conceal his pain" (Air & Chorus)

09:21

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Now strike the golden Lyre again" (Recitative & Chorus)

William Berger & Ludus Baroque

03:02

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Revenge, Timotheus cries" (Air)

07:43

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Give the vengeance due" (Recitative)

01:12

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "The princes applaud with a furious joy" (Air)

02:17

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Thais led the way" (Air and Chorus)

04:59

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Thus, long ago" (Recitative)

00:44

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "At last divine Cecilia came" (Grand Chorus)

Ed Lyon, William Berger & Ludus Baroque

02:58

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Recitative)

00:22

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (Chorus)

03:33

Alexander's Feast: Part Two, "Your voices tune, and raise them high" (Chorus)