Hyperion Records
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CDD22050
(Originally issued on CDA66071/2)
Dyad (2 CDs for the price of 1)

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Recording details: November 1982
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: April 2005
Total duration: 123 minutes 29 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

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'Enchanting music, performed with warmth and insight. An important addition to the current list of Handel recordings' (The Sunday Times)

'Much recommended' (The Daily Telegraph)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
The Triumph of Time & Truth
The London Handel Orchestra, Denys Darlow (conductor)
The Triumph of Time and Truth, HWV71
CD1
1
Act 1 No 01: Overture  [4:18]
2
Act 1 No 02. Chorus: Time is supreme  [3:17]
The London Handel Choir
3
Act 1 No 03. Recitative: How happy could I linger here (Beauty)  [0:11]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
4
Act 1 No 04. Air: Faithful mirror, fair-reflecting (Beauty)  [4:42]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
5
Act 1 No 05. Recitative: Fear not! I, Pleasure, swear (Pleasure/Beauty)  [0:35]
Ian Partridge (tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano)
6
Act 1 No 06. Air: Pensive sorrow, deep-possessing (Pleasure)  [5:28]
Ian Partridge (tenor)
7
Act 1 No 07. Air: Come, come! live with Pleasure (Beauty/Chorus)  [1:30]
Gillian Fisher (soprano), The London Handel Choir
8
Act 1 No 08. Recitative: Turn, look on me! (Time/Counsel)  [0:27]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Charles Brett (countertenor)
9
Act 1 No 09. Air: The Beauty smiling (Counsel)  [3:38]
Charles Brett (countertenor)
10
Act 1 No 10. Recitative: Our different powers we'll try (Pleasure/Beauty/Time/Counsel)  [0:19]
Ian Partridge (tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Charles Brett (countertenor)
11
Act 1 No 11. Air: Ever-flowing tides of pleasure (Beauty)  [4:54]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
12
Act 1 No 12. Recitative: The hand of Time pulls down (Time)  [0:20]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
13
Act 1 No 13. Air: Loathsome urns, disclose your treasure (Time)  [5:12]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
14
Act 1 No 14. Chorus: Strengthen us, O Time, with all thy lore  [0:29]
The London Handel Choir
15
Act 1 No 15. Recitative: Too rigid the reproof you give (Deceit)  [0:25]
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
16
Act 1 No 16. Air: Happy, if still they reign in pleasure (Deceit/Chorus)  [3:07]
Emma Kirkby (soprano), The London Handel Choir
17
Act 1 No 17. Recitative: Youth is not rich in Time (Counsel/Time/Pleasure)  [0:51]
Charles Brett (countertenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Ian Partridge (tenor)
18
Act 1 No 18. Air: Like the shadow, life ever is flying (Time/Chorus)  [3:04]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), The London Handel Choir
19
Act 2 No 01. Chorus: Pleasure submits to pain  [5:21]
The London Handel Choir
20
Act 2 No 02. Recitative: Here Pleasure keeps his splendid court (Pleasure/Beauty)  [0:40]
Ian Partridge (tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano)
21
Act 2 No 03. Chorus: Oh, how great the glory  [3:40]
The London Handel Choir
22
Act 2 No 04. Air: Dryads, Sylvans, with fair Flora (Pleasure/Chorus)  [7:08]
Ian Partridge (tenor), The London Handel Choir
CD2
1
Act 2 No 05. Air: Come, O Time, and thy broad wings displaying (Beauty)  [3:19]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
2
Act 2 No 06. Air: Mortals think that Time is sleeping (Counsel)  [5:29]
Charles Brett (countertenor)
3
Act 2 No 07. Recitative: You hoped to call in vain, but see me here (Time)  [0:38]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
4
Act 2 No 08. Air: False destructive ways of Pleasure (Time)  [4:35]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
5
Act 2 No 09. Recitative: Too long deluded you have been (Counsel/Time)  [0:55]
Charles Brett (countertenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
6
Act 2 No 10. Air: Lovely Beauty, close those eyes (Pleasure)  [3:47]
Ian Partridge (tenor)
7
Act 2 No 11. Recitative: Seek not to know what known will prove (Deceit)  [0:12]
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
8
Act 2 No 12. Air: Melancholy (Deceit)  [4:06]
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
9
Act 2 No 13. Recitative: What is the present hour? 'tis born and gone! (Time/Beauty)  [0:42]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Gillian Fisher (soprano)
10
Act 2 No 14. Air: Fain would I, two hearts enjoying (Beauty)  [1:45]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
11
Act 2 No 15. Recitative: Vain the delights of age or youth (Counsel)  [0:35]
Charles Brett (countertenor)
12
Act 2 No 16. Air: On the valleys, dark and cheerless (Counsel)  [3:15]
Charles Brett (countertenor)
13
Act 2 No 17. Recitative: Not venial error this, but stubborn pride (Time/Beauty/Counsel)  [1:21]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor)
14
Act 2 No 18. Chorus: Ere to dust is changed the beauty  [2:22]
The London Handel Choir
15
Act 3 No 01: Sinfonia  [0:46]
16
Act 3 No 02. Recitative: Once more I thee address (Deceit/Beauty)  [0:24]
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano)
17
Act 3 No 03. Air: Sharp thorns despising (Deceit)  [2:15]
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
18
Act 3 No 04. Recitative: Regard her not. Unvalued here (Counsel/Beauty)  [0:52]
Charles Brett (countertenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano)
19
Act 3 No 05. Air: Pleasure! My former ways resigning (Beauty)  [4:37]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
20
Act 3 No 06. Recitative: Since the immortal mirror I possess (Beauty/Pleasure/Counsel)  [0:24]
Gillian Fisher (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Charles Brett (countertenor)
21
Act 3 No 07. Air: Thus to ground, thou false, delusive (Counsel)  [2:57]
Charles Brett (countertenor)
22
Act 3 No 08. Recitative: O mighty Truth! thy power I see (Beauty)  [1:03]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
23
Act 3 No 09. Air: From the heart that feels my warning (Time)  [4:15]
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
24
Act 3 No 10. Recitative: Pleasure, too long associates we have been (Beauty/Pleasure)  [0:31]
Gillian Fisher (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor)
25
Act 3 No 11. Air: Like clouds, stormy winds then impelling (Pleasure)  [4:48]
Ian Partridge (tenor)
26
Act 3 No 12. Recitative: Farewell; – now Truth, descending from the sky (Beauty)  [0:39]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
27
Act 3 No 13. Air: Guardian angels, oh, protect me (Beauty)  [5:27]
Gillian Fisher (soprano)
28
Act 3 No 14. Chorus: Alleluja!  [1:54]
The London Handel Choir