PARTE I

1. ACCOMPA. (Allegro T)

Hence, loathed Melacholy

2. ACCOMPA.  (Pens. S)

Hence, vain deluding joys

3. ARIA (Allegro S)

Come, thou goddess

4. ARIA (Pens. S)

Come. rather, goddess

5.  (Allegro T & CHORUS)

Haste, thee, nymph

6.  (Allegro T & CORO)

Come and trip it as you go

7. ACCOMPA. (Pens. S)

Come, pensive Nun

8. ARIA (Pens. S)

Come, but keep thy wonted state, with even step, and musing gait; and looks commercing with the skies,                                      thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. There held in holy possion still,   forget thy self to marble, till        with aad leaden downward cast   thou fix them on the earth as fast.

9. ACCOMP.  (AllegroT o S)

Hence, loathed Melancholy

10. ARIA (Allegro BOY)

Mirth, admit me of thyn  crew

11. REC. (Pens. S)

First and chief

12. ARIA (Pens.S)

Sweet bird, that shun'st

13. ARIA (Allegro B)

Mirth, admit me of thyn  crew

14. ARIA (Pens. S)

Oft, on a plat of rissing ground

15. ARIA (Pens. S)

Far from all resort

16. ARIA (Allegro S o T)

Let me wander not unseen              by hedge-row elms,on hillocks green there the ploughman,near at end,    whistles over the furrow'd land,        and the milkmaid singeth blithe,    and the mower whets his scythe,     and every shepherd tells his tale     under the hawthorn in the dale.

17. ARIA (Allegro S)

Strenght my eye

18. ARIA (All. S o B)

Mountains, on whose barren

19. ARIA (Allegro BOY)

Or let the merry bells

PARTE  II

20. REC. (Pens. S)

Hence, vain deluding joys

21. ARIA (Pens. S)

Somatimes let gorgeous tragedy

22. ARIA ( S)

But, oh!  sad vergin

22a. REC. (Pens. S)

Thus , Night

23. S (Allegro) & CORO

Populus cities

24. ARIA (Allegro T o S)

There let Hymen

25. REC. (Pens. S)

Me, when the sun

26 ARIA (Pens. S)

Hide me from the day's garish eyes

27. ARIA. (Allegro T)

I'll to the welltrod stage anon

28. ARIA. (Allegro S)

And ever agaist eating cares

29. ARIA. (Allegro S o T)

Orpheus self

30. Allegro T & CORO

These delights

30a. REC. (Pens. S)

But let my due feet

31. CORO

Then let thhe pealing organ blow

32. ARIA. (Pens. S)

Mat at last my weary age

33. S (Pens.) & CORO

These pleasure, Melancholy

PARTE  III

34. REC. (Moderato B)

Hence, boast not ye profane

35. ARIA (Moderato B)

Come, with native lustre shine

36. REC. (Mod. B  & CORO)

Sweet Temp'rane

37. ARIA (Moderato S)

Come, with gentle hand

38a. REC.(Moderato S o T)

No more short

38b. ARIA (Moderato S o T)

Each action

39. TERZETTO(Al.&Pe. S & T)

As steals the morn upon the night, and melts the shades  away:           so truth das fancy's charm dissolve                                                   and melts the shades away:                                                               the fumes that did the mind involve,                                            restoring intellectual day . 

40. CORO

Thy pleasures , Moderation,give

ODE in 3 parts for Soli,Chorus and Orchestra

Libretto by Charles JENNENS(1707-1773) based on a work of James HARRIS from two short poems (L'Allegro & Il Penseroso, circa 1632) by                                        John MILTON  ¯  .

Il Moderato is only by Jennens.

Composition: From 19 Jan. to 4 Feb. 1740.

1st Performane: 27 Feb. 1740  in London at Lincoln's Inn Field Theatre.

Original cast:

ALLEGRO  : a boy soprano +  T John Beard + B Henry Reinhold

PENSEROSO  : La Framcesina (S)

MODERATO    : William Savage (B)

:

1]  BERLIN CLASSics (2)    001 1472  (1989) sr 2009

Cond.: Rolf Reuter

 SOPRANI    : Hruba - Feiberger

  ALTO  :         Jochel Kowalski

  TENOR :       Rabsilber

   BASS :         Kappelmann

                             2009

2] DECCA 460 287 rist.(2) (1959) + St.CECILIA'S ODE

cONductor: D. WILLcocks & London Philar.

 SOPRANI     :  E. Morison - J.Delman- E.Harwood

 ALTO      : H. Watts

 TENOR    : P. Pears

 BASS       : H. Alan

3] AMERICAN DECCA DXA 7165 (1960)   (  no MODERATO)

 Cond. : F. Waldman

        CAST :

A.Addison (S) ; J. McCollum (T) ; J.Reardon (BR)

4] MHS 4741   (2lp)(1980)  

 ?

5]  ERATO 2292-45377(2)  (1980) 

Cond.: J.H. GARDINER & Eng.Bar.Sol.

 ALLEGRO    : M.Ginn - M.Mc Laughlin - M.Davies - M.HillS.Varcoe

 PENSEROSO  : P.Kwella - J.Smith

  MODERATO   : S.Varcoe

6]  ARABESQUE Z 6554 (2)  (1985) 

Cond.: M.Pearlman & Banchetto musicale

SOPRANI     :  N.Armstrong - S.Baker

 ALTO          : M.Westbrook

 TENOR       : F.Kelley

 BASS          : J.Maddalena

7]  HYPERION CDA 67283(2)  (1999) 

Cond.: R. KING & King's Cons.

 SOPRANI     :  S.Gritton - L.Anderson - C.Mc Fadden

 TENOR       : P.Agnew

 BASS          : N.Davies          

8]  VIRGIN 5 45417 (2)  (1999) 

Cond.: J. Nelson & Ens.Orch.Paris

 SOPRANI     :  C.Brandes - L.Dawson

 C TENOR     : D.Daniels

 TENOR        : I.Bostridge

 BASS           : A.Miles

9]  NAXOS 8 557057(2)  (2002)  Live

Cond.: J.C.Martini & Bar.Or.Fran.

 SOPRANI     :  L.Perillo - B.Hanniga

 TENOR        :  K.SCHOCH

 BASS           : S.McLEOD

&1 NIMBUS 7895 (rec 1910)    [Solo aria n° 12]

[Nelly Melba, with flute]

& 2  HAMBURGER ARCHIV 10114 [Solo aria.n° 12]

+ NIMBUS 7832 [1925]

[Maria  Ivogün]

&3 NIMBUS 7895 (rec 1939)    [Solo terz. n° 16](in German)

[Marian Anderson,with piano]

&4   HARMONIA MUNDI USA HMU 907422 (2006)  [Solo terzetto n° 39]

[Mark Padmore]

&5   EMI  3822432 (2006)  [Only duo n° 39 with K.Royal]

[Ian Bostridge]

&6  COVIELLO  20808(2008) [Only duo n° 39 ]

[Cristoph Genz]

&7  BIS SACD "H. Choruses" (2009) [n°19]

[Carolyn Samson & Bach Ch]

&8  ATMA 2589 "H. Arias" (2009) [n°12]

[Karina Gauvin]

&9 NAIVE "Between Heaven & Earth" [2009][N° 12]

[Sandrine Piau]

&10  BERLIN 0184762  [2009][only N° 3]

[Jochen Kowalsky]

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          Giudizi (rating):

  OPERA (2000)  quotes cd 7.      ♪♪♪♪♪

  CLASSICSTODAY  quotes cd 8.    8/9

  AMADEAUS (2005) quotes cd  9.   ***

   H   :    2/10        for   CD  9.

  OM 6/07     quotes cd  &4        &&&&&

 H   :  8/10         for       &4

lG:ec   may 2007 for       &4

MdM 9/07  :***     for  &5  

 OM (9/07) :  &&       for  &5  

CD   &6    Fanfare (2009)  f f f

CD   &8           "        "      f f f f

CD   &7           "         "     f f f f                             CD   &7      Musica   "     * * * *