The King’s Consort feat. Iestyn Davies and Robert King – Your tuneful voice – Handel Oratorio Arias (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The King’s Consort feat. Iestyn Davies and Robert King – Your tuneful voice – Handel Oratorio Arias (2014)
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Acclaimed countertenor Iestyn Davies and The King’s Consort perform an outstanding programme of Handel arias from some of the composer’s finest oratorios. Eleven varied solo arias include ‘O sacred oracles of truth’, the delicate ‘Tune your harps’, ‘Eternal source of light’ (with supreme trumpet playing from Crispian Steele-Perkins), the melodious ‘Your tuneful voice’ and the virtuoso ‘Mighty love now calls to arm’, as well as rarities including ‘On the valleys, dark and cheerless’ and an especial jewel, ‘Mortals think that Time is sleeping’.

Iestyn is joined in two glorious duets by soprano Carolyn Sampson, including the ecstatic ‘Welcome as the dawn of day’ and the ghostly ‘Who calls my parting soul from death’.

Recorded in the well-nigh perfect acoustic of Menuhin Hall with a large and colourful orchestra, who also contribute two

Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Iestyn Davies, Rachel Chaplin, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Carolyn Sampson, …
Conductor: Robert King
Orchestra/Ensemble: The King’s Consort

“Davies’s quick coloratura is dazzling in the final aria, ‘How can I stay when love invites?’”
“Davies’s phrasing is to be admired, spanning as it does long lines of breath control.”
“a first class anthology of Handel arias. The singing of Iestyn Davies is a delight from start to finish and he receives ideal support from Robert King and his players.”

Tracklist:
01. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – O sacred oracles of truth (from Belshazzar) (05:01)
02. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Mortals think that time is sleeping (from The Triumph of Time and Truth) (07:05)
03. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Tune your harps to cheerful strains (from Esther) (04:45)
04. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Mighty love now calls to arm (from Alexander Balus) (02:35)
05. The King’s Consort, Robert King – Overture to Jephtha: [Grave] – Allegro – [Grave] (05:09)
06. The King’s Consort, Robert King – Overture to Jephtha: Menuet (01:37)
07. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Eternal source of light divine (from Birthday Ode for Queen Anne) (03:35)
08. Iestyn Davies, Carolyn Sampson, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Welcome as the dawn of day (from Solomon) (03:32)
09. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Your tuneful voice my tale would tell (from Semele) (05:12)
10. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Yet can I hear that dulcet lay (from The Choice of Hercules) (03:49)
11. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Up the dreadful steep ascending (from Jephtha) (03:36)
12. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert KingIestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert KingIestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Overture to Samson: Andante – Adagio (03:17)
13. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Overture to Samson: Allegro – Adagio (01:37)
14. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Overture to Samson: Menuetto (02:49)
15. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Thou shalt bring them in (from Israel in Egypt) (03:15)
16. Iestyn Davies, Carolyn Sampson, The King’s Consort, Robert King – Who calls my parting soul from death (from Esther) (03:13)
17. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – On the valleys, dark and cheerless (from The Triumph of Time and Truth) (04:00)
18. Iestyn Davies, The King’s Consort, Robert King – How can I stay when love invites (from Esther) (03:06)

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