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George Frideric Handel Composer
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pastoral Ode), HWV55
Performances: 20
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L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (Pastoral Ode), HWV55Year: 1740
Genre: Oratorio
Pr. Instruments: Voice & Chorus/Choir
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Part 1
- Ouverture (Concerto grosso, Op.6, No.1)
- 1.Accompagnato: Hence, loathed melancholy
- 2.Accompagnato: Hence, vain deluding joys
- 3.Air: Come, Thou goddess fair and free
- 4.Air: Come rather goddess sage and holy
- 5.Air and Chorus: Haste thee nymph
- 6.Air and Chorus: Come, and trip it as you go
- 7.Accompagnato: Come pensive nun
- 8.Arioso: Come, but keep thy wonted state
- 9.Accompagnato and Chorus: There held in holy passion still ... Join with thee
- 10.Accompagnato and Recitative: Hence, loathed melancholy ... And if I give thee honour due
- 11.Accompagnato: First, and chief, on golden wing
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12.Air: Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly
- 12.Air: Mirth, admit me of thy crew
- 13.Air: Oft on a plat of rising ground
- 14.Air: Far from all resort of mirth
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15.Recitative and 16.Air: If I give thee honour due ... Let me wander, not unseen
- 17.Air: Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures
- 18.Accompagnato: Mountains on whose barren breast
- 19a.Air and Chorus: Or let the merry bells ring round ... And young and old come forth
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Part 2
- Ouverture (Concerto grosso, Op.6, No.3)
- 20.Accompagnato: Hence, vain deluding joys
- 21.Air: Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy
- 22.Air: But oh! sad virgin, that thy power
- 22a.Recitative: Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career
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23.Solo and Chorus: Populous cities please me then ... 24.Air: There let Hymen oft appear
- 25.Accompagnato: Me, when the sun begins to fling
- 26.Air Hide me from day's garish eye
- 27.Air: I'll to the well-trod stage anon
- 28.Air: And ever against eating cares
- 29.Air: Orpheus' self may heave his head
- 30.Air and Chorus: These delights, if thou canst give
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30a.Recitative: But let my due feet never fail ... 31.Chorus and Solo: There let the pealing organ blow
- 32.Air: May at last my weary age
- 33.Chorus: These pleasures, melancholy, give
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Part 3
- Ouverture (Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, Op.7, No.1)
- 35.Air: Come, with native lustre shine
- 34.Accompagnato: Hence, boast not, ye profane
- 36.Accompagnato and Chorus: Sweet temp'rance in thy right hand bear
- 37.Air: Come, with gentle hand restrain
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38.Recitative and Air: No more short life they then will spend ... Each acorn will derive new grace
- 39.Duet: As steals the morn upon the night
- 40.Chorus: Thy pleasures, Moderation, give
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