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Title: In Handel's Shadow Vocal Music By His Rivals in
Artist: Lux et Umbrae: Robert Crowe
Label: Toccata
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5060640070189
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2023-09-15
Number of Discs: 1

The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth century; casting many of his contemporaries - fine composers themselves - into centuries of obscurity. This recording throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems; some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks from their performers. Several of these composers set scenes from Classical mythology or Old Testament narratives - but they also explore the underside of the Baroque psyche in one of David's darkest psalms and in a representation of Arcadian madness.

Tracks:
1.1 Recitative: These Are Thy Glorious Works [01:22]
1.2 Duet: And with Songs and Choral Symphonies [01:44]
1.3 Recitative: Fairest of Stars, Last in the Train of Night [00:29]
1.4 Aria: Praise Him in Thy Spheare [00:53]
1.5 Recitative: Thou Sun of This Great World [00:21]
1.6 Aria: Sound His Praise in Thy Eternal Course [02:03]
1.7 Recitative: Moon, That Now Meet'st the Orient Sun [00:35]
1.8 Aria: Resound His Praise [00:42]
1.9 Recitative: Air, and Ye Elements [00:41]
1.10 Aria: Let Your Ceaseless Change [01:24]
1.11 Recitative: Ye Mists, and Exhalations [00:52]
1.12 Aria: Rising or Falling, Still Advance His Praise [01:07]
1.13 Recitative: His Praise, Ye Winds [00:53]
1.14 Aria: In Sign of Worship Wave [01:36]
1.15 Recitative: Fountains, and Ye, That Warble [00:16]
1.16 Aria: Warbling Tune His Praise [01:09]
1.17 Duet: Joyn Voices, All Ye Living Souls [02:04]
1.18 Duet: Ye That in Waters Glide [01:23]
1.19 Duet: Hail! Universal Lord [00:41]
1.20 Duet: Disperce It [02:07]
1.21 Aria: How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me? [03:23]
1.22 Recitative: Let Mine Enemy Say [01:05]
1.23 Aria: But My Truth Is in Thy Mercy [01:40]
1.24 Orpheus with His Lute [04:37]
1.25 Behold and Listen [05:07]
1.26 Recitative: Daphne the Beautyfull, the Coy [01:05]
1.27 Aria: Turn Thee, Leave Thy Trembling Fear! [03:19]
1.28 Recitative: The River's Ecchoing Banks [00:57]
1.29 Aria: Father Peneus [01:55]
1.30 Recitative: Apollo Wond'ring Stood [00:53]
1.31 Aria: Nature Alone Can Love Inspire [01:51]
1.32 Recitative: I Go to the Elisian Shade [01:04]
1.33 Aria: Ai Fly from Celia's Cold Disdain [00:46]
1.34 Recitative: Her Eyes Are Brighter [00:43]
1.35 Aria: See Yonder River's Flowing Tide [00:49]
1.36 Recitative: There Have I Wept [01:07]
1.37 Aria: Pity My Pains, Ye Gentle Swains [01:39]
1.38 Recitative : Where Yelling and Howling and Grumbling and Growling [01:06]
1.39 Aria: To Some Peaceful Plain Convey Me [01:05]
1.40 Prelude in a Minor [03:00]
1.41 Duet: Blessed Are Those That Are Undefiled [01:08]
1.42 Recitative: Thou Hast Charged [00:26]
1.43 Aria: O That My Ways Were Made So Direct [01:52]
1.44 Duetto: Then Will I Talk of Thy Commandments [02:14