The Thames Consort - Alexander's Feast at Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames on Saturday 2nd October 2021

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The Thames Consort - Alexander's Feast

Part of the Music at St Peter's 2021 Season

Add to my Calendar 02-10-2021 20:00 02-10-2021 22:00 36 The Thames Consort - Alexander's Feast Handel's dramatic and colourful work for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, choir and orchestra was written for London in 1736; the great success of this ode encouraged Handel to move from writing Italian operas to English oratorios. The libretto is based on a poem by John Dryden, and tells of a great banquet held by Alexander the Great and his mistress Thais to celebrate his defeat of the Persian king, Darius. Alexander's bard, Timotheus, is able by his singing to move Alexander to various emotions until finally he incites him to burn Persepolis down in revenge for his dead Greek soldiers. Finally St Cecilia descends and lifts the mood from barbarity to a higher plane. Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Dorchester Abbey
High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England

Saturday 2nd October 2021
8:00 PM

Programme

George Frideric Handel – Alexander's Feast, HWV 75

Performers

Jeremy Boughton – Director / organ

Thames Consort

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Programme Note

Handel's dramatic and colourful work for soprano, tenor and bass soloists, choir and orchestra was written for London in 1736; the great success of this ode encouraged Handel to move from writing Italian operas to English oratorios.

The libretto is based on a poem by John Dryden, and tells of a great banquet held by Alexander the Great and his mistress Thais to celebrate his defeat of the Persian king, Darius. Alexander's bard, Timotheus, is able by his singing to move Alexander to various emotions until finally he incites him to burn Persepolis down in revenge for his dead Greek soldiers. Finally St Cecilia descends and lifts the mood from barbarity to a higher plane.

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