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    The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Handel: Alceste, Comus (1990)

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    Date: 4 Mar 2023 11:44:04
    The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Handel: Alceste, Comus (1990)

    The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Handel: Alceste, Comus (1990)
    EAC FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:57 | 412 MB
    Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: L'Oiseau-Lyre | Catalog: 421 479-2

    According to Christopher Hogwood, in his marvelous biography of Handel, "In the winter of that year [1750], Handel received what was for him an unusual commission. Although closely associated with the London theatre, he wrote very little incidental music for plays. A request from John Rich to provide airs and dances for Smollett's 'Alceste' was undertaken, according to Hawkins, in repayment of a debt to Rich."
    Handel composed music for the wedding scene, two dream sequences, Hadean airs which include a rollicking bass aria for Charon ("Ye fleeting shades, I come to fix your final doom!"), and the triumphant return from Hades of Alceste and Heracles. None of the music is sung by the play's principle characters. Probably the best known aria in "Alceste" is "Gentle Morpheus," beautifully sung in this production by English soprano, Dame Emma Kirkby. According to Hogwood, it is one of Handel's best known slumber songs.
    Handel seems to have done a bit of borrowing to repay his debt to John Rich. The overture to "Alceste" bears an uncanny resemblance to that which begins "The Triumph of Time and Truth," and other passages resemble music from "Theodora" (which was composed by Handel earlier that year). The tenor solo "Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove" reminds me of an aria from "Giulio Cesare." The chorus "Thrice happy who in life excel" sounds as though it could have come from Bach's "St. Matthew's Passion." However, borrowed Handel is still Handel, and I enjoyed this recording, especially the arias by early music specialists, Dame Emma Kirkby and David Thomas.
    Handel's "Comus, or There in the Blissful Shades" was a new musical epilogue to a previously composed masque that enjoyed a long run on the London stage. The original masque in honor of Chastity, "Comus" was written by John Milton in 1634. The sixty-year old Handel composed his epilogue to "Comus" in 1745 while he was recuperating at the country seat of the Earl of Gainsborough. According to Hogwood's biography of Handel, the Earl of Gainsborough himself took part in the masque, and the music "shows a tactful regard on Handel's part for the Earl's limited abilities."
    Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music performs up to its usual high standards in this recording. "Alceste" and "Comus" are minor Handel, but still well worth your time.
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    The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood - Handel: Alceste, Comus (1990)

    Track List:

    Alceste, HWV45
    1. Overture
    2. Grand entrée
    3. Recitative: Ye happy people
    4. Soli and Chorus: Triumph, Hymen in the pair
    5. Solo and Chorus: Still caressing, and caress'd
    6. Aria: Ye swift minutes as ye fly
    7. Chorus: O bless, ye powers above
    8. Aria: Gentle Morpheus, son of night
    9. Aria: Ye fleeting shades, I come
    10. Chorus: Thrice happy who in life excel
    11. Aria: Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove
    12. Chorus: Thrice happy
    13. Come Fancy, empress of the brain
    14. Symphony - He comes, he rises from below
    15. Chorus: All hail, thou mightly son of Jove!
    16. Symphony
    17. Recitative: From high Olympus' top
    18. Aria: Tune your harps, all ye Nine - First dance
    19. First dance/The last dance/ Chorus: - Triumph, thou glorious son of Jove
    (57:12)

    Comus, HWV44
    20. Air: There in blissful shades and bow'rs
    21. Chorus: Happy, happy, happy plains!
    22. Air: There sweetest flowers of mingled hue
    23. Chorus: Happy, happy, happy plains!
    24. Air: There youthful Cupid, high advanc'd
    25. Chorus: Happy, happy, happy plains
    (16:45)

    Performers:
    Alceste
    EMMA KIRKBY, Soprano I
    JUDITH NELSON, Soprano II
    MARGARET CABLE, Mezzo-Soprano
    PAUL ELLIOTT, Tenor
    DAVID THOMAS, Bass
    Christina Pound, Soprano
    Catherine Denly, Mezzo-Soprano
    Rogers Covey-Crump, Tenor
    Christopher Keyte, Bass

    Comus
    PATRIZIA KWELLA, Soprano
    MARGARET CABLE, Mezzo-Soprano
    DAVID THOMAS, Bass

    THE ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
    on authentic instruments
    directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

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