L'Oiseau Lyre DSLO 581 [LP]
Playing time: 56'56
Recorded: 2-6 July 1977, St Jude's-on-the-Hill, Hampstead
Handel: Theatre Music - Alceste
The Academy of Ancient Music - Christopher Hogwood
Contents:
| Side 1 | ||
| 1. | Overture | [5:38] |
| 2. | Act I Grand entrée - Ye happy people - Triumph, Hymen - Still caressing - Ye swift minutes - O bless, ye powers - Gentle Morpheus | [20:13] |
| Side 2 | ||
| 3. | Act IV Ye fleeting shades - Thrice happy - Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove - Thrice happy - Come Fancy - Symphony - He comes - All hail - Symphony - From high Olympus' top - Tune your harps - Ballo primo - L'ultimo ballo - Triumph, thou son of Jove | [31:05] |
Performers:
Judith Nelson, soprano
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Margaret Cable, mezzo soprano
Paul Elliott, tenor
David Thomas, bass
Christina Pound, soprano
Catherine Denly, mezzo soprano
Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor
Christopher Keyte, bass
The Academy of Ancient Music
directed by Christopher Hogwood