The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth century; casting many of his contemporaries - fine composers themselves - into centuries of obscurity. This recording throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems; some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks from their performers. Several of these composers set scenes from Classical mythology or Old Testament narratives - but they also explore the underside of the Baroque psyche in one of David's darkest psalms and in a representation of Arcadian madness.

Tracklist:

Recitative: These Are Thy Glorious Works [01:22]
Duet: And with Songs and Choral Symphonies [01:44]
Recitative: Fairest of Stars, Last in the Train of Night [00:29]
Aria: Praise Him in Thy Spheare [00:53]
Recitative: Thou Sun of This Great World [00:21]
Aria: Sound His Praise in Thy Eternal Course [02:03]
Recitative: Moon, That Now Meet'st the Orient Sun [00:35]
Aria: Resound His Praise [00:42]
Recitative: Air, and Ye Elements [00:41]
Aria: Let Your Ceaseless Change [01:24]
Recitative: Ye Mists, and Exhalations [00:52]
Aria: Rising or Falling, Still Advance His Praise [01:07]
Recitative: His Praise, Ye Winds [00:53]
Aria: In Sign of Worship Wave [01:36]
Recitative: Fountains, and Ye, That Warble [00:16]
Aria: Warbling Tune His Praise [01:09]
Duet: Joyn Voices, All Ye Living Souls [02:04]
Duet: Ye That in Waters Glide [01:23]
Duet: Hail! Universal Lord [00:41]
Duet: Disperce It [02:07]
Aria: How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me? [03:23]
Recitative: Let Mine Enemy Say [01:05]
Aria: But My Truth Is in Thy Mercy [01:40]
Orpheus with His Lute [04:37]
Behold and Listen [05:07]
Recitative: Daphne the Beautyfull, the Coy [01:05]
Aria: Turn Thee, Leave Thy Trembling Fear! [03:19]
Recitative: The River's Ecchoing Banks [00:57]
Aria: Father Peneus [01:55]
Recitative: Apollo Wond'ring Stood [00:53]
Aria: Nature Alone Can Love Inspire [01:51]
Recitative: I Go to the Elisian Shade [01:04]
Aria: Ai Fly from Celia's Cold Disdain [00:46]
Recitative: Her Eyes Are Brighter [00:43]
Aria: See Yonder River's Flowing Tide [00:49]
Recitative: There Have I Wept [01:07]
Aria: Pity My Pains, Ye Gentle Swains [01:39]
Recitative : Where Yelling and Howling and Grumbling and Growling [01:06]
Aria: To Some Peaceful Plain Convey Me [01:05]
Prelude in a Minor [03:00]
Duet: Blessed Are Those That Are Undefiled [01:08]
Recitative: Thou Hast Charged [00:26]
Aria: O That My Ways Were Made So Direct [01:52]
Duetto: Then Will I Talk of Thy Commandments [02:14

UPC: 5060640070189
Label: Toccata
Release Date: 9.15.23
Format: CD

Blow / Carey / Eberth - In Handel's Shadow Vocal Music By His Rivals In (CD)