Title: In Handel's Shadow Vocal Music By His Rivals in Artist: Sigrun Richter Label: Toccata Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060640070189 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2023-09-15 Number of Discs: 1
The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth century; casting many of his contemporaries - fine composers themselves - into centuries of obscurity. This recording throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems; some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks from their performers. Several of these composers set scenes from Classical mythology or Old Testament narratives - but they also explore the underside of the Baroque psyche in one of David's darkest psalms and in a representation of Arcadian madness.
Tracks: 1.1 Recitative: These Are Thy Glorious Works [01:22] 1.2 Duet: And with Songs and Choral Symphonies [01:44] 1.3 Recitative: Fairest of Stars, Last in the Train of Night [00:29] 1.4 Aria: Praise Him in Thy Spheare [00:53] 1.5 Recitative: Thou Sun of This Great World [00:21] 1.6 Aria: Sound His Praise in Thy Eternal Course [02:03] 1.7 Recitative: Moon, That Now Meet'st the Orient Sun [00:35] 1.8 Aria: Resound His Praise [00:42] 1.9 Recitative: Air, and Ye Elements [00:41] 1.10 Aria: Let Your Ceaseless Change [01:24] 1.11 Recitative: Ye Mists, and Exhalations [00:52] 1.12 Aria: Rising or Falling, Still Advance His Praise [01:07] 1.13 Recitative: His Praise, Ye Winds [00:53] 1.14 Aria: In Sign of Worship Wave [01:36] 1.15 Recitative: Fountains, and Ye, That Warble [00:16] 1.16 Aria: Warbling Tune His Praise [01:09] 1.17 Duet: Joyn Voices, All Ye Living Souls [02:04] 1.18 Duet: Ye That in Waters Glide [01:23] 1.19 Duet: Hail! Universal Lord [00:41] 1.20 Duet: Disperce It [02:07] 1.21 Aria: How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me? [03:23] 1.22 Recitative: Let Mine Enemy Say [01:05] 1.23 Aria: But My Truth Is in Thy Mercy [01:40] 1.24 Orpheus with His Lute [04:37] 1.25 Behold and Listen [05:07] 1.26 Recitative: Daphne the Beautyfull, the Coy [01:05] 1.27 Aria: Turn Thee, Leave Thy Trembling Fear! [03:19] 1.28 Recitative: The River's Ecchoing Banks [00:57] 1.29 Aria: Father Peneus [01:55] 1.30 Recitative: Apollo Wond'ring Stood [00:53] 1.31 Aria: Nature Alone Can Love Inspire [01:51] 1.32 Recitative: I Go to the Elisian Shade [01:04] 1.33 Aria: Ai Fly from Celia's Cold Disdain [00:46] 1.34 Recitative: Her Eyes Are Brighter [00:43] 1.35 Aria: See Yonder River's Flowing Tide [00:49] 1.36 Recitative: There Have I Wept [01:07] 1.37 Aria: Pity My Pains, Ye Gentle Swains [01:39] 1.38 Recitative : Where Yelling and Howling and Grumbling and Growling [01:06] 1.39 Aria: To Some Peaceful Plain Convey Me [01:05] 1.40 Prelude in a Minor [03:00] 1.41 Duet: Blessed Are Those That Are Undefiled [01:08] 1.42 Recitative: Thou Hast Charged [00:26] 1.43 Aria: O That My Ways Were Made So Direct [01:52] 1.44 Duetto: Then Will I Talk of Thy Commandments [02:14
