Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner – Handel: Concerti a due cori; Concerto Grosso “Alexander’s Feast” (1978/2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner – Handel: Concerti a due cori; Concerto Grosso “Alexander’s Feast” (1978/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:24 minutes | 747 MB | Genre: Classical
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Handel’s focus in his three Concerti a due cori was on lively rhythms, arresting dialogue and vibrant colours, so his slow movements take something of a back seat, except here where he returned to Esther for a long, lilting siciliana in which the reedy oboes add a poignant edge to the movement’s lingering minor-key melancholy.

Alexander’s Feast (HWV 75) is an ode with music by George Frideric Handel 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.

Tracklist:
1-1. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – I. Allegro (03:44)
1-2. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – II. Largo – Adagio (01:53)
1-3. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – III. Allegro – Adagio (03:39)
1-4. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – IV. Andante non presto (03:48)
1-5. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – Overture in D Major, HWV 337/338 (05:47)
1-6. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – I. Overture (01:31)
1-7. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – II. Allegro ma non troppo (02:44)
1-8. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – III. Allegro (02:12)
1-9. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – IV. Lento (02:13)
1-10. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – V. A tempo ordinario (01:29)
1-11. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – VI. Alla breve. Moderato (01:36)
1-12. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – VII. Menuet. Allegro (03:39)
1-13. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – I. Pomposo (01:56)
1-14. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – II. Allegro (02:05)
1-15. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – III. A tempo giusto (02:46)
1-16. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – IV. Largo (02:00)
1-17. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – V. Allegro ma non troppo – Adagio (03:31)
1-18. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – VI. A tempo ordinario (03:20)
1-19. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – I. Ouverture (01:39)
1-20. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – II. Allegro – Allegro ma non troppo (05:36)
1-21. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – III. Adagio (01:19)
1-22. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – IV. Andante larghetto (03:33)
1-23. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – V. Allegro (04:10)
1-24. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (03:04)

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