Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick HWV 75 (Georg Friedrich Händel)

Composition title: Alexander's Feast or The Power of Musick HWV 75

Year: 1736

Composer: Georg Friedrich Händel

Movements:

I. Teil
01. Overtüre
02. Rezitativ: 'Twas at the royal feast
03. Arie und Chor: Happy, happy pair
04. Rezitativ: Timotheus plac'd on high
05. Rezitative: The song began from Jove
06. Chor: The list'ning crowd
07. Arie: With ravish'd ears
08. Rezitativ: The praise of Bacchus
09. Arie und Chor: Bacchus ever fair and young
10. Rezitativ: Sooth'd with the sound
11. Rezitativ: He chose a mournful muse
12. Arie: He sung Darius, great and good
13. Rezitativ: With downcast looks
14. Chor: Behold Darius great and good
15. Rezitativ: The mighty master smil'd
16. Arioso: Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17. Arie: War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18. Chor: The many rend the skies with loud applause
19. Arie: The prince, unable to conceal his pain
20. Chor: The many rend the skies with loud applause

II. Teil
01. Rezitativ und Chor: Now strike the golden lyre again
02. Arie: Revenge, Timotheus cries
03. Rezitativ: Give vengeance the due
04. Arie: The princes applaud with a furious joy
05. Arie und Chor: Thais led the way
06. Rezitativ: Thus long ago
07. Chor: At last divine Cecilia came
08. Rezitativ: Let old Timotheus yield the prize
09. Chor: Let old Timotheus yield the prize

External links:

• Wikipedia (dt.)
• Wikipedia
• Score (Handel Werkeausgabe)