George Frideric Handel – Alexander’s Feast & Ode For St- Cecilia’s Day [2x Hybrid-SACDs] {PS3 ISO}

George Frideric Handel – Alexander’s Feast & Ode For St- Cecilia’s Day
Kölner Kammerchor / Collegium Cartusianum / Peter Neumann
PS3 SACD ISO: 3,18 GB & 4,42 GB| Stereo + Multichannel DSD | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Carus # 83.424 | Country/Year: Germany 2009
Genre: Classical | Style: Baroque, Oratorio

Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) is an ode with music by George Frideric Handel set to a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton adapted his libretto from John Dryden’s ode Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music (1697) which had been written to celebrate Saint Cecilia’s Day. Jeremiah Clarke (whose score is now lost) set the original ode to music.
Handel composed the music in January 1736, and the work received its premiere at the Covent Garden Theatre, London, on 19 February 1736. In its original form it contained three concertos: a concerto in B flat major in 3 movements for “Harp, Lute, Lyrichord and other Instruments” HWV 294 for performance after the recitative Timotheus, plac’d on high in Part I; a concerto grosso in C major in 4 movements for oboes, bassoon and strings, now known as the “Concerto in Alexander’s Feast” HWV 318, performed between Parts I and II; and an organ concerto HWV 289 in G minor and major in 4 movements for chamber organ, oboes, bassoon and strings performed after the chorus Let old Timotheus yield the prize in Part II. The organ concerto and harp concerto were published in 1738 by John Walsh as the first and last of the Handel organ concertos Op.4. Handel revised the music for performances in 1739, 1742 and 1751. Donald Burrows has discussed Handel’s revisions to the score.
The work describes a banquet held by Alexander the Great and his mistress Thaïs in the captured Persian city of Persepolis, during which the musician Timotheus sings and plays his lyre, arousing various moods in Alexander until he is finally incited to burn the city down in revenge for his dead Greek soldiers.
The piece was a great success and it encouraged Handel to make the transition from writing Italian operas to English choral works. The soloists at the premiere were the sopranos Anna Maria Strada and Cecilia Young, the tenor John Beard, and a bass called Erard (first name unknown).
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (HWV 76) is a cantata composed by George Frideric Handel in 1739, his second setting of the poem by the English poet John Dryden. The title of the oratorio refers to Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. The main theme of the text is the Pythagorean theory of harmonia mundi, that music was a central force in the Earth’s creation. The premiere was on 22 November 1739 at the Theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London.
Ebenezer Prout commented on various facets of Handel’s instrumentation in the work. Edmund Bowles has written on Handel’s use of timpani in the work. wikipedia

Disc Info:
George Frideric Handel – Kölner Kammerchor / Collegium Cartusianum / Peter Neumann – Alexander’s Feast & Ode For St- Cecilia’s Day
Label: Carus
Catalog#: 83.424
Format: 2xHybrid-SACD, Album, Stereo, Multichannel
Country: Germany
Released: 2009
Genre: Classical
Tracklist:
Disc 01
01. Ouvertüre [0:06:08.37]
02. Twas at the royal feast [0:01:08.53]
03. Happy, happy, happy pair! [0:04:31.29]
04. Timotheus plac’d on high [0:00:26.01]
05. The song began from Jove [0:01:09.51]
06. The list’ning crowd admire the lofty sound [0:02:19.26]
07. With ravish’d ears [0:03:17.35]
08. The praise of Bacchus [0:00:32.74]
09. Bacchus, ever fair – Bacchus’ blessings are a treasure [0:04:01.05]
10. Sooth’d with the sound [0:00:38.01]
11. He chose a mournful muse [0:01:31.28]
12. He sung Darius great and good [0:03:41.00]
13. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate [0:01:09.40]
14. Behold Darius, great and good [0:03:02.74]
15. The mighty master smil’d to see [0:00:34.09]
16. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures [0:03:32.55]
17. War, he sung, is toil and trouble [0:04:29.19]
18. The many rend the skies [0:04:03.34]
19. The Prince, unable to conceal his pain [0:06:30.35]
20. The many rend the skies [0:04:16.67]
Disc 02
01. Now strike the golden Iyre – Break his bands of sleep [0:02:49.29]
02. Revenge, Timotheus cries [0:05:01.44]
03. Give the vengeance due [0:01:29.02]
04. The princes applaud with a furious joy [0:02:01.63]
05. Thais led the way – The princes applaud with a furious joy [0:06:18.37]
06. Thus long ago – At last devine Cecilia came [0:06:08.38]
07. Let old Timotheus yield the prize [0:00:22.20]
08. Let old Timotheus yield the prize [0:03:43.62]
09. Ouvertüre – Menuet [0:04:59.56]
10. From harmony, from heav’nly harmony [0:03:45.72]
11. From harmony, from heav’nly harmony [0:03:47.15]
12. What passion cannot music raise [0:08:06.24]
13. The trumpets loud clangor [0:03:24.66]
14. La Marche [0:02:02.52]
15. The soft complaining flute [0:05:24.67]
16. Sharp Violins proclaim [0:04:04.74]
17. But oh! What art can teach [0:05:20.47]
18. Orpheus could lead could lead the savage race [0:01:42.42]
19. But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r [0:00:44.47]
20. As from the pow’r of sacred lays [0:07:07.54]
Recorded at Trinitatiskirche Köln 25-27 October 2008
Total time SACD 1: 57’06 / SACD 2: 78’28
Eine Produktion des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln, 2008
(P) (C) 2009 by Carus Verlag, Stuttgart

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