Georg Friedrich Händel: Alexander's Feast Or The Power Of Musick HWV 75: Mixed

Arrangeur: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Haendel composa en 1736 un poème de John Dryden 'Le Festin d'Alexandre ou la puissance de Musick' sous la forme d'une cantate en deux parties. À la suggestion du baron Gottfried van Swieten, Mozart 1790 édité cette ode en l'honneur de sainte Cécile. Ce traitement était la traduction allemande du poème par Karl Wilhelm PeterRamler base de l'année 1770. Comme dans d'autres travaux d'usinage de Haendel Mozart Uminstrumentierung provoque un changement dans le caractère du son qui représente la composition dans la tradition du classicisme viennois. Handel: Nouvelles notes claires et police (BA 400192, disponible en anglais seulement) Mozart: Piano première disponible dans le commerce (BA 452790) Maintenant, sous une forme révisée: Pour la nouvelle édition de Handel, la version dynamique d'un divulgations de base ont été révisées, ce qui a ajouté trois desAnhangs ensembles, la Handel, dans une réduction pour piano (BA 400192) sont publiées pour la première fois. La lisibilité de la production a été considérablement améliorée./ Répertoire / Piano

Cantata in two parts-In 1736 Handel composed ?Alexander?s Feast? or ?The Power of Musick? a two-part cantata based on John Dryden?s poem of the same name.In 1790 at the suggestion of Baron Gottfried van Swieten Mozart arranged this work using a German translation of the poem made by Karl Wilhelm Ramler in 1770. As in other arrangements of Handelian works Mozart?s re-instrumentation leads to a change in the sound character of the work placing the composition in the tradition of the Viennese Classic.Urtext of the New Mozart EditionFull score (BA4527-01) vocal score (BA4527-90) available for salePerformance material available for hire (BA4527-72)

Alexander's Feast was composed by Handel in 1736. The words, in celebration of St Cecilia, patron saint of music, were written by Dryden and first set to music by Jeremiah Clarke. This ode was written for STB (or SATB) soli, SATB chorus and orchestra. This version, edited by Donald Burrows, contains all vocal parts and a piano accompaniment. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

John Dryden wrote two odes in honour of the patroness of music and musicians - A Song For St. Cecilia's Day , in 1687, and, in 1697, Alexander's Feast , both of which were subsequently set to music by Handel. A Song For St. Cecilia's Day proved so popular that it was performed six times during the winter of 1739-40, in spite of the fact that this was a 'hard winter'. Written for soprano and tenor soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, this edition contains all vocal parts and a piano accompaniment / Chant Et Piano

Familiar favorites such as the overtures to Messiah Acis and Galatea Alexander’s Feast Julius Caesar and the so-called Water Musick plus fresh discoveries for keyboard players—all demonstrating Handel’s exciting theatrical sense his technical virtuosity in composition and his dazzling mastery of musical forms. Reprinted from an extremely rare edition originally printed probably in the 1750’s by Handel’s London publisher John Walsh. The edition preserves the original keyboard notation amazingly precise in its elegant execution.

Some of the most delightful devout and dramatic arias from the sacred and secular stage works of G.F. Handel all selected for low voice soloist. Volume 3 features 15 songs selected from such established favourites asSamson Julius Caesar and Alexander's Feast. Each piece includes a full Piano accompaniment derived and reduced from the original orchestral material. Edited by Sergius Kagen.

Oratorio in three parts-In quite characteristic fashion for the times Handel’s opera “Alessandro” looks at various episodes in the life and rule of Alexander the Great (356 323 BC). This legendary warrior and military commander conquered large parts of the world before meeting an untimely end at the age of 32. A central conflict in Handel’s opera is Alessandro being in love with two women Lisaura and Rossane who compete for his favour. In addition his claim to be of divine parentage is underlined occasioning him to demand the subservience of his followers which meets with vigorous disapproval.Handel composed “Alessandro” for the Royal Academyof Music to a libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli in the 1725/26 season. The work was premiered at the King’s Theatre in London on 5 May 1726. “Alessandro” was the first of five operas for the Royal Academy operas which saw Handel compose for three of the most famous singers of his time: Francesco Bernardi (called Senesino) Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.Ortensio Mauro’s libretto “La superbia d’Alessandro ” which was performed for the first time in Hanover in 1690 in a musical setting by Agostino Steffani and staged again in the city the following year under the title “Il zelo di Leonato” but with numerous alterations served as the source text for Handel’s “Alessandro”. One of the main aspects Rolli had to consider when preparing the libretto for the London performances was to keep the roles of the famous singers of the Royal Academy well balanced yet at the same time to engineer a musical contest between the prima donnas Cuzzoni and Bordoni (Lisaura and Rossane) as well. From a business point of view it made good sense for such rivalry would surely increase public interest in the opera.It is no longer possible to ascertain which changes Handel made during the following performance series of the 1727/28 season. For the performance series of 1732/33 Handel made substantial revisions to the opera: six numbers were deleted in their entirety the finale in part as well and the recitatives were made much shorter with the parts of Cleone and Leonato omitted