Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    L'Allegro - Hence loathed Melancholy
    George Frideric Handel
    2:28
  • 2
    Il Penseroso - Hence vain deluding joys
    George Frideric Handel
    0:53
  • 3
    L'Allegro - Come, thou Goddess
    George Frideric Handel
    1:34
  • 4
    Il Penseroso - Come, rather, Goddess
    George Frideric Handel
    3:24
  • 5
    L'Allegro - Haste thee, nymph
    George Frideric Handel
    1:14
  • 6
    L'Allegro - Haste thee, nymph (chorus)
    George Frideric Handel
    1:13
  • 7
    L'Allegro - Come, and trip it (solo, chorus)
    George Frideric Handel
    2:33
  • 8
    Il Penseroso - Come, pensive nun
    George Frideric Handel
    1:10
  • 9
    Il Penseroso - Come, but keep thy wonted state - Join with thee (chorus)
    George Frideric Handel
    6:21
  • 10
    L'Allegro - Hence, loathed Melancholy - And if I give thee honour due
    George Frideric Handel
    4:13
  • 11
    Il Penseroso - First, and chief, on golden wing
    George Frideric Handel
    8:20
  • 12
    L'Allegro - If I give thee honour due
    George Frideric Handel
    2:35
  • 13
    Il Penseroso - Oft on a plat of rising ground
    George Frideric Handel
    3:24
  • 14
    Il Penseroso - Far from all resort of Mirth
    George Frideric Handel
    3:47
  • 15
    L'Allegro - If I give thee honour due
    George Frideric Handel
    2:23
  • 16
    L'Allegro - Straight mine eye
    George Frideric Handel
    5:47
  • 17
    L'Allegro - Or let the merry bells - And young and old come (chorus)
    George Frideric Handel
    4:16
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Il Penseroso - Hence, vain deluding joys
    George Frideric Handel
    5:33
  • 2
    Il Penseroso - Thus night oft see me
    George Frideric Handel
    0:21
  • 3
    L'Allegro - Populous cities
    George Frideric Handel
    3:24
  • 4
    L'Allegro - There let Hymen oft appear
    George Frideric Handel
    2:30
  • 5
    Il Penseroso - Me, when the sun begins to fling
    George Frideric Handel
    3:59
  • 6
    L'Allegro - I'll to the well-trod stage anon
    George Frideric Handel
    1:57
  • 7
    L'Allegro - And ever against eating cares
    George Frideric Handel
    3:01
  • 8
    L'Allegro - Orpheus 'self may heave his head
    George Frideric Handel
    2:41
  • 9
    L'Allegro - These delights if thou canst give (solo, chorus)
    George Frideric Handel
    3:17
  • 10
    Il Penseroso - But let my due feet never fail
    George Frideric Handel
    0:39
  • 11
    Il Penseroso - There let the pealing organ blow (chorus) - And let their sweetness
    George Frideric Handel
    2:07
  • 12
    Il Penseroso - May at last my weary age - These pleasures, Melancholy, give (solo, chorus)
    George Frideric Handel
    9:43
  • 13
    Il Moderato - Hence, boast not - All this company serene
    George Frideric Handel
    5:50
  • 14
    Il Moderato - Come, with gentle hand restrain
    George Frideric Handel
    1:50
  • 15
    Il Moderato - No more short life
    George Frideric Handel
    2:40
  • 16
    Il Moderato - As steals the morn upon the night
    George Frideric Handel
    6:38
  • 17
    Il Moderato - Thy pleasures, Moderation, give
    George Frideric Handel
    3:22

More by Handel, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Release credits

Issues