Alexander’s Feast: “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:46 | |
Alexander’s Feast: 1. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus. “Now Strike the Golden Lyre Again” 2. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus.“Break His Bonds of Sleep Asunder” 3. Accompanied Recitative With Chorus. “Hark, Hark! The Horrid Sound” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 2:20 | |
Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Revenge, Revenge, Timotheus Cries” 2. Accompanied Recitative. “Behold, a Ghastly Band” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 5:06 | |
Alexander’s Feast: 1. Air. “Thaïs Led the Way” 2.Chorus. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 5:27 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Give the Vengeance Due” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 1:46 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “He Chose a Mournful Muse” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 1:20 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “The Song Began From Jove” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:19 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “Thus, Long Ago” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 2:47 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Accompanied Recitative. “With Downcast Looks the Joyless Victor Sate” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:53 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Bacchus, Ever Fair and Young” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 4:40 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air and Chorus. “Happy, Happy, Happy Pair!” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 4:45 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air. “He Sung Darius, Great and Good” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:20 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air. “Softly Sweet in Lydian Measures” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:00 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Prince, Unable to Conceal His Pain” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 6:05 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air. “The Princes Applaud With a Furious Joy” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 2:07 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air. “War, He Sung, Is Toil and Trouble” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 5:19 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Air. “With Ravish’d Cars” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:25 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Chorus (da capo). “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 4:02 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “At Last Divine Cecilia Came” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:08 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “Behold Darius Great and Good” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:06 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Listening Crowd Admired the Lofty Sound!” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 2:16 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Chorus. “The Many Rend the Skies With Loud Applause” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 3:56 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Duet. “Let’s Imitate Her Notes Above!” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 2:28 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Overture. (Larghetto e staccato) – Allegro – Adagio | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 6:12 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “’Twas at the Royal Feast” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:49 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Let Old Timotheus Yield the Prize” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:20 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Soothed With the Sound, the King Grew Vain” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:34 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Mighty Master Smiled to See” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:28 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “The Praise of Bacchus Then” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:29 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Timotheus Placed on High” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:19 | |
Alexander’s Feast: Recitative. “Your Voices Tune, and Raise Them High” | Sir John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Carolyn Watkinson, Nigel Robson, Donna Brown, Ashley Stafford & Stephen Varcoe | | | 0:32 | |
Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehöret, SWV 396 | Michael Chance, Ashley Stafford, The English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner | | | 5:36 | |
Dixit Dominus: De torrente in via bibet | Nancy Argenta, Ashley Stafford, The English Concert, The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock | | | 2:50 | |
Dixit Dominus: Tecum principium | Ashley Stafford, The English Concert, The English Concert Choir, Trevor Pinnock | | | 2:55 | |
Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 Hail, bright Cecilia | Paul Elliott, Brian Gordon, Monteverdi Choir, Jennifer Smith, Ashley Stafford, David Thomas, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 4:43 | |
Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 Hail, bright Cecilia | Paul Elliott, Brian Gordon, Monteverdi Choir, Ashley Stafford, David Thomas, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 4:20 | |
Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 Hark! Hark! Each tree its silence breaks | Ashley Stafford, David Thomas, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 3:59 | |
Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar jointly labour to inspire | Paul Elliott, Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 6:19 | |
Hail, bright Cecilia, Z328 With that sublime celestial lay dare any eahtly songs compare? | Brian Gordon, Ashley Stafford, David Thomas, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 3:07 | |
Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn, SWV 40 | Ruth Holton, The Monteverdi Choir, Ashley Stafford, The English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner | | | 6:18 | |
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F: Magnificat | James Edwards, Steven Lowe, Ashley Stafford, Peter Hall, Nigel Beavan, The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Dearnley, John Scott | | | 5:41 | |
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F: Nunc dimittis | James Edwards, Steven Lowe, Ashley Stafford, Peter Hall, Nigel Beavan, The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Christopher Dearnley, John Scott | | | 3:48 | |
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Gloria in Excelsis Deo...Et in Terra Pax | Nancy Argenta, Patrick Collin, Jane Fairfield, Jean Knibbs, Lloyd Morgan, Monteverdi Choir, Andrew Murgatroyd, Ashley Stafford, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 1:44 | |
Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Gloria in Excelsis Deo...Et in Terra Pax | Nancy Argenta, Patrick Collin, Jane Fairfield, Jean Knibbs, Lloyd Morgan, Monteverdi Choir, Andrew Murgatroyd, Ashley Stafford, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 4:08 | |
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: I. Ad pedes | Donna Deam, Susan Hemington Jones, Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, Philip Salmon, Richard Savage, Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 10:04 | |
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: III. Ad manus | Donna Deam, Ruth Holton, Monteverdi Choir, Simon Oberst, Rachel Platt, Angus Smith, Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 9:54 | |
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: V. Ad pectus | Monteverdi Choir, Nicolas Robertson, Ashley Stafford, Lawrence Wallington, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 11:26 | |
Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: VII. Ad faciem | Alan Brafield, Carol Hall, Monteverdi Choir, Mary Seers, Ashley Stafford, Paul Sutton, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 8:03 | |
Musikalische Exequien: I. Concert in Form einer teutschen Begräbnis-Missa, SWV 279 | Stephen Charlesworth, The Monteverdi Choir, Rachel Platt, Nicolas Robertson, Mary Seers, Ashley Stafford, Lawrence Wallington, The English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner | | | 22:52 | |
O bone Jesu, fili Mariae (SWV 471) | Ruth Holton, Jean Knibbs, Nicolas Robertson, Richard Savage, Ashley Stafford, Paul Tindall, English Baroque Soloists, Fretwork, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 7:51 | |
The Fairy Queen, Z.629, Act 4: Duet: "Let the fifes, and the Clarions" | Timothy Penrose, Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | 3 | 1:57 | |
The Indian Queen, Act II, What flatt'ring noise is this | John Elwes, Ashley Stafford, David Thomas, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 0:42 | |
The Indian Queen, Act III, Ah! how happy are we! | John Elwes, Ashley Stafford, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner | | | 2:33 | |