Marcus Bosch, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Aachener Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2007)
Marcus Bosch, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Aachener Kammerchor - George Frideric Handel: Alexander's Feast (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 402 Mb | Total time: 85:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Coviello Classics | # COV 30715 | Recorded: 2006
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 402 Mb | Total time: 85:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Coviello Classics | # COV 30715 | Recorded: 2006
Handel's oratorio Alexander's Feast, composed in 1736, is English to the core, with its talky text by John Dryden and straightforward, clearly structured arias and choruses. The victory of Alexander the Great in the Persian city of Persepolis (an impressive ruin today) in 330 BCE was said to have been followed by a feast that gave Dryden the excuse for a sort of ode to the power of music (rendered in mixed language as "the power of musik" in the booklet of this German release), with arias illustrating the various affects. There isn't really any plot or action; the piece is more an extended secular cantata than an oratorio, especially inasmuch as the soloists (the soprano and the tenor are the prominent ones) do not represent characters in the story. Conductor Marcus Bosch and the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, with the joined Aachen Chamber Choir and Overbacher Chamber Choir, are not on the music's home ground, and they're not (except for soprano Dorothee Mields) especially noted as Baroque specialists. But they deliver smooth, agreeable, slightly plummy readings of modest size that fit the text well and avoid the stomping around of many modern-instrument readings. The soloists are a varied group; Mields and alto Judith Berning are German, while Woong-jo Choi is Korean-Swiss and tenor Paul Agnew is from Scotland. The non-Anglophones do quite well with the English – you know they're not from England, but you can't quite pin down the origin – and Mields' bright sound is even a bit more in the spirit of the work than Agnew, who is a bit stolid in doggerel like "Happy, happy, happy pair/ None but the brave deserve the fair." The "live" sound (apparently meaning that the music was recorded in single takes, for the recording spanned five days) is superior, and this is the kind of recording both choral singers and their soloists will enjoy setting up as a benchmark for their own activities.–James Manheim
Performer:
Dorothee Mields, soprano
Judith Berning, alto
Paul Agnew, tenor
Woong-jo Choi, bass
Aachener Kammerchor
Overbacher Kammerchor
Sinfonieorchester Aachen
Marcus Bosch, conductor
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
CD1:
01. Part One. 1. Overture
02. 1. Overture Text
03. 1. Overture Andante
04. 2. Recitativo. Tenore. 'Twas at the royal feast
05. 3. Aria e Coro. Tenore e Coro. Happy, happy, happy pair
06. 4. Recitativo. Tenore. Timotheus, plac'd on high
07. 5. Accompagnato. Soprano. The song began from Jove
08. 6. Coro. The list'ning crowd
09. 7. Aria. Soprano. With ravish'd ears the monarch hears
10. 8. Recitativo. Tenore. The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musicians sung
11. 9. Aria e Coro. Basso e Coro. Bacchus, ever fair and young
12. 10. Recitativo. Tenore. Sooth'd with the sound
13. 11. Accompagnato. Soprano. He chose a mournful Muse
14. 12. Aria. Soprano. He sung Darius, great and good
15. 13. Accompagnato. Soprano. With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
16. 14. Coro. Behold, Darius great and good
17. 15. Recitativo. Tenore. The mighty master smil'd to see
18. 16. Arioso. Soprano. Softly sweet in Lydian measures
19. 17. Aria. Soprano. War, he sung, is toil and trouble
20. 18. Coro. The many rend the skies
21. 19. Aria. Soprano. The prince, unable to conceal his pain
22. Coro da capo. The many rend the skies
CD2:
01. Part Two. 20. Accompagnato e Coro. Tenore e Coro. Now strike the golden
02. 21. Aria. Basso. Revenge, Timotheus cries
03. 21. Aria, Largo. Behold, a ghastly band
04. Part Two. 21. Aria da capo
05. 22. Accompagnato. Tenore. Give the vengeance due to the valiant crew
06. 23. Aria. Tenore. The princes applaud with a furious joy
07. 24. Aria e Coro; Aria. Soprano. Thais led the way
08. 24. Coro
09. 25. Accompagnato e Coro; Accompagnato. Tenore. Thus, long ago, ere heaving
10. 25. Coro
11. 26. Recitativo (Tenore e Basso). Let old Timotheus yield the prize
12. 27. Soli e Coro. Let old Timotheus Yield the prize
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