Tracks - Disc 1 (CD)
1.
Alexander's Feast - Overture (Larghetto e staccato)- Allegro - Adagio - Andante
2.
'Twas at the royal feast
3.
Happy, happy, happy pair!
4.
Timotheus placed on high
5.
The song began from Jove
6.
The listening crowd admired the lofty sound!
7.
With ravish'd ears
8.
The praise of Bacchus then
9.
Bacchus, ever fair and young
10.
Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain
11.
He chose a mournful Muse
12.
He sung Darius, great and good
13.
With downcast looks the joyless victor sate
14.
Behold Darius great and good
15.
The mighty master smiled to see
16.
Softly sweet in Lydian measures
17.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble
18.
The many rend the skies with loud applause
19.
The prince, unable to conceal his pain
20.
The many rend the skies with loud applause
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)