Fall Choir Concert: Sunday, December 7, 2008

Program

• MIT Concert Choir
• William Cutter, conductor

Randall Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom

1. Say ye to the righteous (mp3)
2. Woe unto them (mp3)
3. The noise of a multitude (mp3)
4. Howl ye (mp3)
5. The paper reeds by the brooks (mp3)
8. Ye shall have a song (mp3)

George Frideric Handel: Alexander’s Feast (or, the Power of Musick)

1. Part One

2. Overture (mp3)
3. Recitative: ’Twas at the royal feast (mp3)
4. Air and Chorus: Happy pair (mp3)
5. Recitative: Timotheus plac’d on high (mp3)
6. Recitative: The song began from Jove (mp3)
7. Chorus: The list’ning crowd (mp3)
8. Air: With ravish’d ears (mp3)
9. Recitative: The praise of Bacchus (mp3)
10. Air and Chorus: Bacchus, ever fair and young (mp3)
11. Recitative: Sooth’d with the sound (mp3)
12. Recitative: He chose a mournful muse (mp3)
13. Air: He sung Darius great and good (mp3)
14. Recitative: With downcast looks (mp3)
15. Chorus: Behold Darius great and good (mp3)
16. Recitative: The mighty master smil’d (mp3)
17. Arioso: Softly sweet, in Lydian measures (mp3)
18. Air: War, he sung, is toil and trouble (mp3)
19. Chorus: The many rend the skies (mp3)
20. Air: The prince, unable to conceal his pain (mp3)

21. Part Two

22. Recitative and Chorus: Now strike the golden lyre again (mp3)
23. Chorus: Break his bands of sleep asunder (mp3)
24. Recitative: Hark, hark (mp3)
25. Air: Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries (mp3)
26. Air: Behold a ghastly band (mp3)
27. Recitative: Give the vengeance due (mp3)
28. Air: The princes applaud with a furious joy (mp3)
29. Air: Thais led the way (mp3)
30. Chorus: Thais led the way (mp3)
31. Recitative: Thus, long ago (mp3)
32. Grand chorus: At last divine Cecilia came (mp3)
33. Recitative: Your voices tune (mp3)
34. Duet: Let’s imitate her notes above (mp3)
35. Recitative and Chorus: Let old Timotheus yield the prize (mp3)

• Elisabeth Hon Hunt, soprano
• Paulina Sliwa, mezzo-soprano
• Ian Olsen, tenor
• Daniel Cunningham

Photos from the Tech: Bill Cutter and soloists   —   Bill Cutter   —   Chorus