Alexander's Feast

Type:

audio

Titel:

Alexander's Feast

Andere titel:

Alexander's Feast, HWV 75

Auteur:

Handel, George Frideric; Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra (United Kingdom); Hamilton, Newburgh; Dryden, John; Deller, Alfred

Jaar:

1976

Onderwerp:

Cecilia
18th Century (1701-1800)
Oratorio
United Kingdom

Taal:

Engels

Uitgever:

New York Vanguard The Bach Guild 1976

Plaatsnummer:

ORPH.REC 12 DELL 1976 (Orpheus Instituut)

Paginering:

2-LK gatefold sleeve 12" leaflet

Reeks:

Historical Anthology of Music V, G, 6

Nota:

Händel's Ode 'Alexander's Feast' (HWV 75) is set to a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton. Hamilton adapted his libretto from John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music (1697) which had been written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke (whose score is now lost) set the original ode to music. The work describes a banquet held by Alexander the Great and his mistress Thaïs in the captured Persian city of Persepolis, during which the musician Timotheus sings and plays his lyre, arousing various moods in Alexander until he is finally incited to burn the city down in revenge for his dead Greek soldiers.

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