CDA67283/4 - Disc 2 Track 9 - L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV55 - Hyperion Records

L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV55

composer

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

1740; London

author of text

John Milton (1608-1674)

author of text

James Harris (1709-1780)

author of text

Charles Jennens (1700-1773)

Recordings

Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

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Essential Handel

The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

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Handel: Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice

Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

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Details

Part 1 No 01. Accompagnato: Hence, loathed melancholy (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 2 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [3'14] 2CDs

Part 1 No 02. Accompagnato: Hence, vain deluding joys (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 3 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [0'57] 2CDs

Part 1 No 03. Air: Come, thou goddess fair and free (L'Allegro)

Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 4 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [1'30] 2CDs

Part 1 No 04. Air: Come rather, goddess, sage and holy (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 5 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [3'33] 2CDs

Part 1 No 05. Air with chorus: Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 6 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [2'22] 2CDs

Part 1 No 06. Air with chorus: Come and trip it as you go (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 7 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [2'47] 2CDs

Part 1 No 07. Accompagnato: Come, pensive nun, devout and pure (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 8 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [1'09] 2CDs

Part 1 No 08. Air: Come, but keep thy wonted state (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 9 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [1'40] 2CDs

Part 1 No 09. Accompagnato with chorus: There, held in holy passion still (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 10 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [4'49] 2CDs

Part 1 No 10. Recitative: Hence, loathed Melancholy! (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 11 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [0'29] 2CDs

Part 1 No 11. Air: Mirth, admit me of thy crew (L'Allegro)

Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 12 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [3'39] 2CDs

Part 1 No 12. Accompagnato: First and chief, on golden wing (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 13 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [0'49] 2CDs

Part 1 No 13. Air: Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of Folly (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), Rachel Brown (flute), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 14 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [14'35] 2CDs

Part 1 No 14. Recitative: If I give thee honour due (L'Allegro)

Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

Track 5 on CDA67842 [0'12]

English

Neal Davies (bass), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 15 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [0'10] 2CDs

Part 1 No 15. Air: Mirth, admit me of thy crew (L'Allegro)

Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

Track 6 on CDA67842 [2'34]

English

Français

Deutsch

Neal Davies (bass), Andrew Clark (horn), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 16 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [2'35] 2CDs

Part 1 No 16. Air: Oft on a plat of rising ground (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 17 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [4'02] 2CDs

Part 1 No 17. Air: Far from all resort of mirth (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 18 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [3'36] 2CDs

Part 1 No 18. Recitative: If I give thee honour due (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 19 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [0'15] 2CDs

Part 1 No 19. Air: Let me wander not unseen (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 20 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [2'23] 2CDs

Part 1 No 20. Air: Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures (L'Allegro)

Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 21 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [2'28] 2CDs

Part 1 No 21. Accompagnato: Mountains, on whose barren breast (L'Allegro)

Neal Davies (bass), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 22 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [1'46] 2CDs

Part 1 No 22. Air with chorus: Or let the merry bells ring round (L'Allegro)

Claron McFadden (soprano), King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 23 on CDA67283/4 CD1 [4'32] 2CDs

Track 14 on KING6 [4'32] Super-budget price sampler

Part 2 No 01. Accompagnato: Hence, vain deluding Joys (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 1 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [1'16] 2CDs

Part 2 No 02. Air: Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 2 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [4'01] 2CDs

Part 2 No 03. Air: But O, sad virgin, that thy pow'r (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), Jane Coe (cello), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 3 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [6'49] 2CDs

Part 2 No 04. Air: Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 4 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [0'19] 2CDs

Part 2 No 05. Chorus: Populous cities please me then (L'Allegro)

King's Consort Choir, Neal Davies (bass), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 5 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [3'31] 2CDs

Part 2 No 06. Air: There let Hymen oft appear (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 6 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'08] 2CDs

Part 2 No 07. Accompagnato: Me, when the sun begins to fling (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 7 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [0'49] 2CDs

Part 2 No 08. Air: Hide me from Day's garish eye (Il Penseroso)

Lorna Anderson (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 8 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [3'27] 2CDs

Part 2 No 09. Air: I'll to the well-trod stage anon (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 9 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'00] 2CDs

Part 2 No 10. Air: And ever against eating cares (L'Allegro)

Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 10 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'51] 2CDs

Part 2 No 11. Air: Orpheus' self may heave his head (L'Allegro)

Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 11 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'30] 2CDs

Part 2 No 12. Air with chorus: These delights if thou canst give (L'Allegro)

Paul Agnew (tenor), King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 12 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [3'16] 2CDs

Part 2 No 13. Recitative: But let my due feet never fail (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 13 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [0'39] 2CDs

Part 2 No 14. Chorus: There let the pealing organ blow (Il Penseroso)

King's Consort Choir, Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 14 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'21] 2CDs

Part 2 No 15. Air: May at last my weary age (Il Penseroso)

Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 15 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [4'07] 2CDs

Part 2 No 16. Fugue: Organo ad libitum il soggetto della fuga seguente

Gary Cooper (organ)

Track 16 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [1'18] 2CDs

Part 2 No 17. Chorus: These pleasures, Melancholy, give (Il Penseroso)

King's Consort Choir, Susan Gritton (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 17 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [5'06] 2CDs

Part 3 No 1. Accompagnato: Hence! boast not, ye profane (Il Moderato)

Neal Davies (bass), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 18 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [0'32] 2CDs

Part 3 No 2. Air: Come, with native lustre shine (Il Moderato)

Neal Davies (bass), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 19 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [3'16] 2CDs

Part 3 No 3. Accompagnato with chorus: Sweet Temp'rance in thy right hand bear (Il Moderato)

Neal Davies (bass), King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 20 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'47] 2CDs

Part 3 No 4. Air: Come, with gentle hand restrain (Il Moderato)

Claron McFadden (soprano), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 21 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [1'45] 2CDs

Part 3 No 5. Recitative: No more short life they then will spend (Il Moderato)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 22 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [0'46] 2CDs

Part 3 No 6. Air: Each action will derive new grace (Il Moderato)

Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 23 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [2'16] 2CDs

Part 3 No 7. Duet: As steals the morn upon the night (Il Moderato)

Susan Gritton (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 24 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [7'28] 2CDs

Track 8 on KING6 [7'28] Super-budget price sampler

Part 3 No 8. Chorus: Thy pleasures, Moderation, give (Il Moderato)

King's Consort Choir, The King's Consort, Robert King (conductor)

Track 25 on CDA67283/4 CD2 [3'29] 2CDs

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Details for CDA67283/4 disc 2 track 9

Part 2 No 9, Air: I'll to the well-trod stage anon (L'Allegro)

Artists

Paul Agnew (tenor)

The King's Consort

Robert King (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-99-28409

Duration

2'00

Recording date

12 February 1999

Recording venue

St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Ben Turner

Recording engineer

Philip Hobbs

Hyperion usage

Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (CDA67283/4)
Disc 2 Track 9
Release date: September 1999
2CDs