Haendel : Alexander's Feast

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   Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: Overture
   6:30
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   Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "T'was at the Royal Feast, for Persia Won by Philip's Warlike Son"
   1:04
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   Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air and Chorus. "Happy Pair !"
   4:43
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   Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: Timotheus, plac`d on high
   0:29
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   Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: The song began from Jove
   1:02
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   Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus. "The List'ning Crowd Admire the Lofty Sound"
   2:02
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   Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air. "With Ravish'd Ears the Monarch Hears"
   3:50
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   Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Recitative. "The Praise of Bacchus Then the Sweet Musician Sung"
   0:40
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   Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Air and Chorus. "Bacchus, ever Fair and Young" - "Bacchus' Blessings are a Treasure"
   5:02
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: Sooth`d with the sound
    0:45
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "He Choose a Mournful Muse"
    1:27
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: He sung Darius, great and good
    3:06
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Accompagnato. "With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate"
    1:14
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: Behold Darius great and good
    2:38
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: The mighty master, mild smil`d to see
    0:32
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: Softly sweet in Lydian measures
    3:08
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: War, he sung, is toil and trouble
    4:40
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus. "The Many Rend the Skies with Loud Applause"
    4:45
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 1: The prince, unable to conceal
    6:58
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 1: Chorus da capo. "The Many Rend the Skies with Loud Applause"
    4:49
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Accompagnato and Chorus. "Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again" - "Break His Bonds of Sleep Asunder" - "Hark, Hark !"
    8:37
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 2: Revenge Timotheus cries
    2:02
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Accompagnato. "Give the Vengeance Due to the Valiant Crew"
    1:31
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Air. "The Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy"
    2:24
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Air and Chorus. "Thais Led the Way" - "The Princes Applaud with a Furious Joy"
    5:20
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Accompagnato and Chorus. "Thus, Long Ago, Ere Heaving Bellows" - "At Last Divine Cecilia Came"
    5:04
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Recitative and Duet. "Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize"
    0:30
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    Alexander's Feast, HWV 75, Pt. 2: Recitative, Air and Chorus. "Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize"
    3:54
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 2: Your voices tune
    0:38
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 2: Let`s imitate her notes above
    2:48
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    Alexander's Feast (2002 Digital Remaster), Part 2: Your voices tune and raise
    3:05
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    The Choice of Hercules (2002 Digital Remaster): Symphony
    1:09
33. 33
    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Accompagnato. "See, Hercules! how smiles yon myrtle plain" (Pleasure)
    1:47
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "Come, blooming boy" (Pleasure)
    1:57
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "There the brisk sparkling nectar drain" (Pleasure)
    2:28
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Solo and Chorus. "While for thy arms that Beauty glows" (Pleasure, Chorus)
    2:30
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Away, mistaken wretch, away" (Virtue)
    0:29
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "This manly youth`s exalted mind" (Virtue)
    6:15
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Rise, youth! exalt thyself and me" (Virtue)
    0:18
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Go, assert thy heav'nly race" (Virtue)
    2:43
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "In peace, in war" (Virtue)
    0:20
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Solo and Chorus. "So shalt thou gain immortal praise" (Virtue, Chorus)
    2:25
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Hearst thou, what dangers" (Pleasure)
    0:37
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Solo and Chorus. "Turn thee, youth, to joy and love" (Pleasure, Chorus)
    2:34
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    The Choice of Hercules (2002 Digital Remaster): Short is my way - Oh cease, enchanting Siren
    0:38
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "Yet can I hear that dulcet lay" (Hercules)
    3:41
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove" (Attendant)
    2:22
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Oh! wither, Reason, dost thou fly?" (Hercules)
    0:16
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "Where shall I go?" (Pleasure, Virtue, Hercules)
    2:22
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "Mount, mount the steep ascent!" (Virtue)
    0:42
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Air. "Mount, mount the steep ascent" (Virtue)
    1:36
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Chorus. "Arise, Arise" (Chorus)
    2:18
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    The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: Recitative. "The sounds breathe fire celestial" (Hercules)
    0:17
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    Handel: The Choice of Hercules, HWV 69: "Lead, Goddess, lead the way" (Hercules)
    5:15
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    The Choice of Hercules (2002 Digital Remaster): Virtue will place three
    5:19

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