Alexander's Feast, HWV 75（ヴォーカル・スコア） パレストリーナ with its famous melodic Largo

with its famous melodic Largo movement

two trumpets with timpani (ad libitum

Personent Hodie

written for the dedication of a private chapel for the once well-to-do Parisian nobility

O Jesulein süß

Alexander's Feast, HWV 75（ヴォーカル・スコア） パレストリーナ with its famous melodic LargoFor the magnificent opening of the oratorio season at the beginning of 1736 Handel presented a composition which, like hardly any of his other oratorios, gave him the opportunity to display his musical artistry: John Drydens ode Alexanders Feast or the Power of Music, published in 1696, demonstrates the power of music by the example of the ancient hero, Alexander the Great. From the impressive lament on the death of Darius, the King of Persia, to the