Handel: Alexander's Feast

5:38

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

0:50

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

Ed Lyon, Sophie Bevan, Ludus Baroque

4:34

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

0:54

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

1:14

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

2:08

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

3:16

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

William Berger, Ludus Baroque

0:34

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

4:32

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

0:42

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

1:14

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

3:01

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

0:48

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

2:20

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

Chris Suckling, Sophie Bevan, Ludus Baroque

0:27

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

3:02

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

4:46

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

3:35

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

9:21

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

William Berger, Ludus Baroque

3:03

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

7:44

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

1:12

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

2:18

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

5:00

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

0:44

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

2:59

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

Ed Lyon, William Berger, Ludus Baroque

0:23

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

3:34

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