Utwory na płycie:

• Esther, HWV 50a: Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains
• L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55: As Steals The Morn
• Solomon: Sinfonia to Part 2
• Solomon: My fair’s a garden of delight
• Solomon:
• Solomon: Ye southern breezes gently blow
• Samson, HWV 57: Let but that spirit
• Samson, HWV 57: Thus when the sun from’s wat’ry bed
• Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Tis well, my friends
• Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Call forth thy pow’rs
• Jephtha, HWV 70: Hide thou thy hated beams
• Il pastor fido, HWV 8a: Sol nel mezzo risona del core
• Jephtha, HWV 70: A father, off’ring up his only child
• Jephtha, HWV 70: Waft her, angels
• The Fairies: Hark how the hounds and horn
• Artaxerxes: Thou, like the glorious sun
• Semele, HWV 58: See, she appears
• Semele, HWV 58: Where’er you walk
• Ariodante, HWV 33: Sinfonia to Act 2
• Ariodante, HWV 33: Tu vivi, e punito
• Alcina, HWV 34: M’inganna, me n’avveggo
• Alcina, HWV 34: Un momento di contento
• Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75: Happy Pair (Air)
• Alexander’s Feast, HWV 75:
• Berenice, HWV 38: Vedi l’ape che ingegnosa

Classical Opera explore a wealth of arias by Handel and his contemporaries William Boyce, John Christopher Smith and Thomas Arne, all of which were composed for the celebrated 18th-century tenor John Beard (1716-1791). For this recording Allan Clayton steps ably into this role, performing alongside the Orchestra of Classical Opera under Ian Page. The disc also features a duet with Mary Bevan, from Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.