Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) | Alexander's Feast or the Power of Music HWV 75
Text: Newburgh Hamilton, from Ode for St Cecilia's Day von John Dryde

Anna Dennis - soprano
Gwilym Bowen - tenor
Matjaž Robavs - bass
Stefano Veggetti - direction
Ensemble Cordia & Cordia Akademie
Glasbena Matica Ljubliana (Sebastjan Vrhovnik - direction)

BRIXNER INITIATIVE MUSIK UND KIRCHE
07.08.2022, Cathedral Brixen (I)

00:00 Ouverture
05:13 Recitative (Tenore) - Twas at the royal feast
06:16 Air (Tenore) and Chorus - Happy, happy, happy pair!
10:41 Recitative (Tenore) - Timotheus, plac’d on high
11:13 Accompagnato (Soprano) - The song began from Jove
12:21 Chorus - The list’ning crowd
14:36 Air (Soprano) - With ravish’d ears
17:48 Recitative (Tenore) - The praise of Bacchus
18:26 Air (Basso) and Chorus - Bacchus, ever fair and young
22:35 Recitative (Tenore) - Sooth’d with the sound
23:20 Accompagnato (Soprano/Alto) - He chose a mournful muse
24:31 Air (Soprano/Alto) - He sung Darius, great and good
27:20 Accompagnato (Soprano/Alto) - With downcast looks
28:16 Chorus - Behold Darius, great and good
30:38 Recitative (Tenore) - The mighty master smil’d
31:16 Arioso (Soprano) - Softly sweet, in Lydian measures
34:26 Air (Tenore) - War, he sung, is toil and trouble
38:51 Chorus - The many rend the skies
42:29 Air (Soprano) - The prince, unable to conceal
51:36 Accompagnato (Tenore) and Chorus - Now strike the golden lyre again
54:00 Air (Basso/Alto) - Revenge! Timotheus cries
01:01:42 Accompagnato (Tenore) - Give the vengeance due
01:04:47 Air (Soprano) and Chorus - Thais led the way
01:09:01 Accompagnato (Tenore) and Chorus - Thus, long ago
01:13:52 Recitative (Tenore, Basso) - Let old Timotheus yield the prize


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Violin: Lorenzo Gugole, Pietro Barttistoni, Ayako Matsunaga, Ilaria Marvilly, Isabel Soteras Valenti
Viola: Maria Luisa, Barbon Lorenzo Boninsegna
Cello: Franziska Romaner, Stefano Veggetti
Doublebass: Davide Nava, Riccardo Coelati Rama
Oboe: Georg Fritz, Stjepan Nodilo
Horn: Viktor Praxmarer, Martin Schöch
Bassoon: Michele Fattori, Yoan Urbano Otano Rangel
Trumpet: Samuel Seig, Martin Weichslbaumer
Harpsichord: Takashi Watanabe
Organ: Sergio Gasparella
Theorbo: Maurizio Piantelli
Timpani: Charlei Fischer

GLASBENA MATICA Ljubljana

Sopran: Maja BRATINA, Blanka ČAKŠ, Ana GREGORIČ, Doroteja KINK, Anita NOVAK SMOLIČ, Andreja PERC, Maša PRAH, Urška URBANIJA ŽUN
Alt: Urška FON, Jana JOCIF, Doris KERŠIČ, Špela KINK, Alina KOLOMIETS, Minka MEHLE, Maria SHILKINA, Klara ŽNIDERŠIČ
Tenor: Aljaž BASTIČ, Peter BARBO, Evgen BIBIANKO, Andro ČALO, Dominik DOBNIK, Domen MIHELČIČ, Daniel ŠIMEK
Bass: Janez AŽMAN, Peter NOVAK SMOLIČ, Tilen SLAKAN, Urban STANIČ, Tilen UDOVIČ, Urban UDOVIČ, Miha ZUPANC KOVAČ

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