HANDEL
Alexander Balus
The King’s Consort
Robert King

• Alexander Balus
• CD1
• 1 Act 1 Ouverture: [Grave] – Allegro [2:51]
• 2 Act 1 Scene 1 No 01. Chorus: Flush’d with conquest, fir’d by Mithra (Asiates) [3:11
• New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 3 Act 1 Scene 1 No 02. Recitative: Thus far, ye glorious partners of the war (Alexander/Jonathan) [1:28]
• Catherine Denley (contralto), Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 4 Act 1 Scene 1 No 03. Air: Great Author of this harmony (Jonathan) [3:17]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 5 Act 1 Scene 1 No 04: Flourish of trumpets [0:11]
• 6 Act 1 Scene 1 No 05. Recitative: And thus let happy Egypt’s king (Ptolomee) [0:24]
• Michael George (bass)
• 7 Act 1 Scene 1 No 06. Air: Thrice happy the monarch, whom nations content (Ptolomee) [3:43]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 8 Act 1 Scene 1 No 07. Recitative: Congratulation to our father’s friend (Cleopatra) [0:25]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 9 Act 1 Scene 1 No 08. Air: Hark! hark! he strikes the golden lyre (Cleopatra) [5:56]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 10 Act 1 Scene 1 No 09. Recitative: Be it my chief ambition there to rise (Alexander) [0:14]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 11 Act 1 Scene 1 No 10. Air: Fair virtue shall charm me (Alexander) [2:24]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 12 Act 1 Scene 1 No 11. Chorus: Ye happy nations round (Asiates) [3:01]
• New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 13 Act 1 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative: My Jonathan (Alexander) [0:35]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 14 Act 1 Scene 2 No 2. Air: Oh, what resistless charms are giv’n (Alexander) [4:13]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 15 Act 1 Scene 3 No 1. Air: Subtle love, with fancy viewing (Cleopatra) [4:55]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 16 Act 1 Scene 3 No 2. Recitative: Aspasia, I know not what to call (Cleopatra) [0:45]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 17 Act 1 Scene 3 No 3. Air: How happy should we mortals prove (Cleopatra) [2:26]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 18 Act 1 Scene 3 No 4. Recitative: Check not the pleasing accents of thy tongue (Aspasia) [0:25]
• Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 19 Act 1 Scene 3 No 5. Air: So shall the sweet attractive smile (Aspasia) [2:40]
• Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 20 Act 1 Scene 3 No 6. Recitative: How blissful state! (Cleopatra/Aspasia) [0:26]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 21 Act 1 Scene 3 No 7. Duet: O what pleasures, past expressing (Cleopatra/Aspasia) [3:00]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 22 Act 1 Scene 4 No 1. Recitative: Why hangs this heavy gloom upon the brow (Jonathan/Alexander) [1:00]
• Charles Daniels (tenor), Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 23 Act 1 Scene 4 No 2. Air: Heroes may boast their mighty deed (Alexander) [4:52]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 24 Act 1 Scene 5 No 1. Recitative: Ye sons of Judah, with high festival (Jonathan) [0:31]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 25 Act 1 Scene 5 No 2. Air with chorus: Great God, from whom all blessings spring (Jonathan/Israelites) [4:28]
• Charles Daniels (tenor), New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 26 Act 2 Scene 1 No 1. Air: Kind hope, thou universal friend (Alexander) [6:04]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 27 Act 2 Scene 1 No 2. Recitative: Long, long and happy live the king! (Jonathan/Alexander) [0:40]
• Charles Daniels (tenor), Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 28 Act 2 Scene 1 No 3. Air: O Mithra, with thy brightest beams (Alexander) [4:17]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 29 Act 2 Scene 1 No 4. Recitative: Stay, my dread sovereign (Sycophant courtier/Alexander/Jonathan) [1:39]
• Charles Pott (bass), Catherine Denley (contralto), Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 30 Act 2 Scene 1 No 5. Air: Mighty love now calls to arm (Alexander) [2:36]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 31 Act 2 Scene 1 No 6. Air: Hateful man! thy sland’rous tongue (Jonathan) [4:20]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• CD2
• 1 Act 2 Scene 1 No 7. Chorus: O calumny, on virtue waiting (Israelites) [4:21]
• New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 2 Act 2 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative: Ah! whence these dire forebodings of the mind? (Cleopatra) [0:39]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 3 Act 2 Scene 2 No 2. Air: Tossed from thought to thought I rove (Cleopatra) [6:29]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 4 Act 2 Scene 2 No 3. Recitative: Give to the winds, fair princess, these vain doubts (Aspasia) [0:22]
• Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 5 Act 2 Scene 2 No 4. Air: Love, glory, ambition, whate’er can inspire (Aspasia) [2:50]
• Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 6 Act 2 Scene 3 No 1. Recitative: Thus far my wishes thrive (Ptolomee) [0:54]
• Michael George (bass)
• 7 Act 2 Scene 3 No 2. Air: Virtue, thou ideal name (Ptolomee) [3:43]
• Michael George (bass)
• 8 Act 2 Scene 4 No 1. Accompagnato: Ye happy people, with loud accents speak (Jonathan) [0:37]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 9 Act 2 Scene 4 No 2. Soli with chorus: Triumph Hymen in the pair [2:40]
• Claron McFadden (soprano), Charles Humphries (countertenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 10 Act 2 Scene 4 No 3. Recitative: Glad time, at length, hath reach’d the happy point (Alexander/Cleopatra) [0:48]
• Catherine Denley (contralto), Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 11 Act 2 Scene 4 No 4. Duet: Hail wedded love, mysterious law! (Alexander/Cleopatra) [3:39]
• Catherine Denley (contralto), Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 12 Act 2 Scene 4 No 5. Chorus: Hymen, fair Urania’s son (Asiates) [2:27]
• New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 13 Act 3 Introduction: Sinfonia [1:15]
• 14 Act 3 Scene 1 No 1. Recitative: ‚Tis true, instinctive nature seldom points (Cleopatra) [0:29]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 15 Act 3 Scene 1 No 2. Air with chorus: Here amid the shady woods (Cleopatra/Ruffians) [4:17]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano), New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 16 Act 3 Scene 2 No 1. Recitative: Ah! was it not my Cleopatra’s voice? (Alexander) [0:41]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 17 Act 3 Scene 2 No 2. Air: Pow’rful guardians of all nature (Alexander) [2:53]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 18 Act 3 Scene 2 No 3. Recitative: Treach’ry, O king, unheard of treachery (Jonathan/Alexander/Aspasia) [1:23]
• Charles Daniels (tenor), Catherine Denley (contralto), Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 19 Act 3 Scene 2 No 4. Air: Fury, with red sparkling eyes (Alexander) [6:24]
• Catherine Denley (contralto)
• 20 Act 3 Scene 2 No 5. Recitative: Gods! can there be a more afflicting sight (Aspasia) [0:24]
• Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 21 Act 3 Scene 2 No 6. Air: Strange reverse of human fate (Aspasia) [2:50]
• Claron McFadden (soprano)
• 22 Act 3 Scene 2 No 7. Recitative: May he return with laurel’d victory (Jonathan) [0:26]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 23 Act 3 Scene 2 No 8. Air: To God who made the radiant sun (Jonathan) [3:13]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 24 Act 3 Scene 2 No 9. Chorus: Sun, moon, and stars, and all ye Host of Heav’n (Israelites) [2:51]
• New College Choir Oxford, King’s Consort Choir
• 25 Act 3 Scene 3 No 1. Recitative: Yes he was false, my daughter, false to you (Jonathan/Cleopatra) [1:19]
• Charles Daniels (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 26 Act 3 Scene 3 No 2. Accompagnato: Ungrateful child, by ev’ry sacred pow’r (Ptolomee) [0:26]
• Michael George (bass)
• 27 Act 3 Scene 3 No 3. Air: O sword, and thou, all-daring hand (Ptolomee) [2:50]
• Michael George (bass)
• 28 Act 3 Scene 4 No 1. Accompagnato: Shall Cleopatra ever smile again? (Cleopatra) [0:43]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 29 Act 3 Scene 4 No 2. Recitative: Ungrateful tidings to the royal ear (Messenger) [1:23]
• Tom Raskin (tenor)
• 30 Act 3 Scene 4 No 3. Air: O take me from this hateful light (Cleopatra) [5:17]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 31 Act 3 Scene 4 No 4. Recitative: Forgive, O queen, the messenger of ill! (Second messenger/Cleopatra) [1:23]
• Simon Birchall (bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 32 Act 3 Scene 4 No 5. Accompagnato: Calm thou my soul (Cleopatra) [0:47]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 33 Act 3 Scene 4 No 6. Air: Convery me to some peaceful shore (Cleopatra) [2:41]
• Lynne Dawson (soprano)
• 34 Act 3 Scene 5 No 1. Recitative: Mysterious are thy ways, O Providence! (Jonathan) [1:20]
• Charles Daniels (tenor)
• 35 Act 3 Scene 5 No 2. Chorus with solo: Ye servants of th‘ eternal King (Jonathan/Israelites) [3:20]

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