Anthony Lewis - Handel: Admetus, King of Thessaly (1968) [2004]

• Title: Handel: Admetus, King of Thessaly
  
• Year Of Release: 1968 [2004]
  
• Label: Ponto [PO-1029]
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,log)
  
• Total Time: 03:32:35
  
• Total Size: 559 mb (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Tracks:

CD1

1. Symphony
2. Act 1. Introduction
3. Scene 1. Recitative. Oh midnight phantoms! Why will you crowd 'round me?
4. Scene 1. Arioso. Oh God of sweet forgetting, be kind to me
5. Scene 1. Recitative. Great King, the godlike Hercules takes his departure
6. Scene 2. Recitative. My dear comrade Admetus
7. Scene 2. Aria. Immortal glories that are inspired to high renown
8. Scene 3. Recitative. Be confident, my Lord, and may relent
9. Scene 3. Recitative. King Admetus shall die!
10. Scene 3. Recitative. Irretrievable orders!
11. Scene 3. Aria. Dearest husband, your eyelids are closing
12. Scene 3. Pastoral Symphony
13. Scene 4. Recitative. Admetus, you;re a false deceiver
14. Scene 4. Aria. Oh whence the harbour, whence the guidance of prudent lofting
15. Scene 5. Recitative. It grieves me sorely to see you weeping, my maidens
16. Scene 5. Aria. No cause for tears and sighing
17. Scene 6. Aria. My fortune changes
18. Scene 6. Recitative. I enjoy it well, Admetus, to see this turn of fortune / Scene 7. Recita
19. Scene 7. Aria. Fair hopes have the strength of lightning
20. Scene 8. Recitative. Where must I stay, until Meraspes joins me
21. Scene 9. Symphony
22. Scene 9. Recitative. Oh Antigona, beloved, here I gaze on your portrait
23. Scene 9. Aria. If you had bow and arrows
24. Scene 10. Recitative. Unexpected good fortune has led the Prince's footsteps
25. Scene 10. Aria. The falcon keeps the skies

CD2

1. Act 2. Symphony
2. Scene 1. Recitative. Your barking, Cerberus, is useless
3. Scene 1. Symphony
4. Scene 1. Recitative. Hercules, my deliverer!
5. Scene 1. Aria. He will rejoice, to him I am restored
6. Scene 2. Recitative. What have I now to hope for?
7. Scene 2. Aria. Dearest, there is no shame
8. Scene 3. Recitative. Most desired of all women, it is you
9. Scene 3. Aria. Your wishes bind me, I shall depart
10. Scene 4. Recitative. Some tangled feat makes Thrasymedes adore me
11. Scene 4. Aria. Over headings and mountains towering
12. Scene 5. Recitative. Great King, since you desired me to discover
13. Scene 5. Aria. Oh dark brooding, vanish!
14. Scene 6. Aria. My sorrows so oppressing
15. Scene 7. Recitative. For what purpose, Alcestis, have you disguised yourself
16. Scene 7. Aria. Hate and jealousy, beguiling and rudeness
17. Scene 8. Recitative. Way down to lonely shades of deep distress
18. Scene 8. Aria. Ah yes, I die
19. Scene 9. Recitative. Let me go, scoundrels! / Scene 10. Recitative. I've recovered the portr
20. Scene 10. Aria. That man, he's born ill-fated whom fortune has forgot
21. Scene 11. Recitative. The impetuous Thrasymedes in his flight
22. Scene 11. Aria. My hopes uncertainly waver like some elusive star
23. Scene 12. Aria. Soon I'll discover if love has fled

CD3

1. Act 3. Scene 1. Arioso. I am doomed, disastrous love
2. Scene 1. Recitative. Ah, Great King Admetus, on my knees here before you I pray
3. Scene 1. Aria. Great King, I was unjust
4. Scene 2. Recitative. Oh love, what new flame kindled and gathered frenzy
5. Scene 2. Aria. How long the tigress waits
6. Scene 3. Recitative. From the kingdom of shadows I return
7. Scene 3. Aria. This love is like a tyrant
8. Scene 4. Recitative. What comfort you grant me now, little gods of love / Scene 5. Recitativ
9. Scene 5. Aria. I caress thee, oh lovely portrait
10. Scene 6. Recitative. What is this, oh gods, this treason?
11. Scene 6. Aria. Wherever my eyes discover sweet grasses
12. Scene 7. Recitative. Joyful news, Thrasymedes: Antigona has been rescued
13. Scene 7. Aria. Alas, what can I do?
14. Scene 7. Recitative. All my hopes then are shattered
15. Scene 7. Aria. Lighten my anger, here shall I smite him
16. Scene 8. Recitative. Come then, Antigona dearest, your sorrows have ended
17. Scene 8. Duet. My beloved! Sweet reconciling!
BONUS TRACKS
Johann Sebastian Bach
Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35 (cantata)
18. Part 1. Sinfonie
19. Arie. Geist und Seele wird verwirret
20. Rezitativ. Ich wundre mich
21. Arie. Gott has alles wohlgemacht
22. Part 2. Sinfonie
23. Rezitativ. Ach, starker Gott, lass mich
24. Arie. Ich wünsche nur bei Gott zu leben

Personnel:

Maureen Lehane (Admetus -alto-)
Sheila Armstrong (Antigona -soprano-)
Janet Baker (Alcestis -mezzo-soprano-)
John Kitchener (Hercules -baritone-)
Margaret Lenski (Thrasymedes -soprano-)
Jean Temperley (Orindo -mezzo-soprano-)
Norman Welsby (Meraspes/Oracle of Apollo -baritone-)
The Baroque Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Anthony Lewis

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