Handel - L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Robert King)
Handel - L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato [1999]
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | Hyperion
Catalog Number: CDA67283/4 | 2cd, 575.99 MB
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | Hyperion
Catalog Number: CDA67283/4 | 2cd, 575.99 MB
Handel's oratorios may be loaded with wonderful music, but their librettos have tended to draw some sniping. It's true that some of them can be rather banal, but others are very impressive–the biblical texts Charles Jennens assembled for Messiah and Israel in Egypt, for example, and John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast. One particularly inspired idea Handel's colleagues had was to take excerpts from John Milton's poems "L'Allegro" (about the joys of sophisticated hedonism) and "Il Penseroso" (about the joys of contemplative solitude) and interweave them to make a sort of musical debate. At Handel's request, Jennens wrote a concluding section titled "Il Moderato," which unites the two opposing temperaments under the guidance of "Sweet Temp'rance." The result is one of Handel's most colorful scores, with such treats as a robust aria with hunting horns, a laughter chorus, a gentle duet for soprano and cello, and arias and choruses with featured parts for trumpets, organ, and even the tinkling bells of a carillon. Not to mention "Sweet bird," one of the very greatest "birdsong" arias, in which a flute imitates a bird and a soprano imitates the flute. How odd, then, that this is only the second recording of L'Allegro in 20 years. Luckily, it's a good one. Conductor Robert King and his orchestra and choir do their work well, certainly, but it's the soloists who make this performance special. Lorna Anderson does a lovely "Sweet bird" with a particularly good trill; soprano Susan Gritton sounds sweeter and more eloquent than ever; and the fabulous tenor Paul Agnew uses an amazing range of tone colors, from angelic purity to intimidating harshness. All in all, this L'Allegro is good enough to silence any grumbling about what took Hyperion so long to record it. –Matthew Westphal
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. OVERTURE [Grave]: Allegro - Lentement - Allegro Moderato
2. PART ONE. Accompagnato: Hence, loathed Melancholy
3. Accompagnato: Hence, vain deluding Joys
4. Air: Come, thou goddess fair and free
5. Air: Come rather, goddess, sage and holy
6. Air & Chorus: Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee
7. Air & Chorus: Come and trip it as you go
8. Accompagnato: Come, pensive nun, devout and pure
9. Air: Come, but keep thy wonted state
10. Accompagnato & Chorus: There, held in holy passion still
11. Recitative: Hence, loathed Melancholy!
12. Air: Mirth, admit me of thy crew
13. Accompagnato: First and chief, on golden wing
14. Air: Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of Folly
15. Recitative: If I give thee honour due
16. Air: Mirth, admit me of thy crew
17. Air: Oft on a plat of rising ground
18. Air: Far from all resort of mirth
19. Recitative: If I give thee honour due
20. Air: Let me wander not unseen
21. Air: Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures
22. Accompagnato: Mountains, on whose barren breast
23. Air & Chorus: Or let the merry bells ring round
CD2
1. PART TWO. Accompagnato: Hence, vain deluding Joys
2. Air: Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy
3. Air: But O, sad virgin, that thy pow'r
4. Air: Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career
5. Chorus: Populous cities please me then
6. Air: There let Hymen oft appear
7. Accompagnato: Me, when the sun begins to fling
8. Air: Hide me from Day's garish eye
9. Air: I'll to the well-trod stage anon
10. Air: And ever against eating cares
11. Air: Orpheus' self may heave his head
12. Air & Chorus: These delights if thou canst give
13. Recitative: But let my due feet never fail
14. Chorus: There let the pealing organ blow
15. Air: May at last my weary age
16. Fugue: Organo ad libitum
17. Chorus: These pleasures, Melancholy, give
18. PART THREE. Accompagnato: Hence! boast not, ye profane
19. Air: Come, with native lustre shine
20. Accompagnato & Chorus: Sweet Temp'rance
21. Air: Come, with gentle hand restrain
22. Recitative: No more short life they then will spend
23. Air: Each action will derive new grace
24. Duet: As steals the morn upon the night
25. Chorus: Thy pleasures, Moderation, give
Performer:
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Lorna Anderson (soprano)
Claron McFadden (soprano)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
The King’s Consort
Choir of the King’s Consort
Conductor - Robert King
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