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Alceste (Alcides) HWV 45

Libretto: Thomas Morell, Tobias Smollett
Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company Orchestra, Early Opera Company Chorus, Lucy Crowe (Soprano), Benjamin Hulett (Tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (Bass-baritone)
2011, St. Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London
21 Tracks, 57:17
    • Overture
      05:04

  • Act 1

    • No. 1. Grand Entrée
      01:58
    • No. 2. Accompagnato 'Ye happy people' (Tenor)
      00:23
    • No. 3. 'Triumph, Hymen, in the pair' (Soprano, Chorus)
      02:34
    • No. 4. 'Still caressing, and caress'd' (Soprano, Chorus)
      02:35
    • No. 5. Aria 'Ye swift minutes as ye fly' (Tenor)
      03:28
    • No. 6. Chorus 'O bless, ye powers above' (Chorus)
      02:01
    • No. 7. Aria 'Gentle Morpheus, son of night - That when bright Aurora's beams' (Soprano)
      08:08

  • Act 4

    • No. 8. Aria 'Ye fleeting shades, I come' (Bass)
      04:19
    • No. 9. Chorus 'Thrice happy who in life excel' (Chorus)
      01:58
    • No. 10. Aria 'Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove' (Tenor)
      05:14
    • No. 9b. Chorus 'Thrice happy who in life excel' (Chorus)
      01:59
    • No. 11. Aria 'Come, Fancy, empress of the brain' (Soprano)
      05:34
    • No. 12. Sinfonia and Accompagnato 'He comes, he rises from below' (Tenor)
      01:25
    • No. 13. Chorus 'Al hail, thou mighty son of Jove!' (Chorus)
      02:11
    • No. 14. Sinfonia. Larghetto
      01:56
    • No. 15. Recitativo 'From high Olympus' top, the seat of God' (Tenor)
      00:45
    • No. 16. Aria 'Tune your harps, all ye Nine' (Tenor)
      01:44
    • No. 17. Ballo primo. Un peu lentement
      01:49
    • No. 18. L'ultimo ballo
      00:56
    • No. 18. Chorus 'Triumph, thou son of Jove' (Chorus)
      01:16