Alceste, incidental music, HWV.45
Alceste ("Alcides"; HWV 45, HG 46b, HHA I/30) is a masque, semi-opera or incidental music by George Frideric Handel (or Georg Friederich Händel in German). It was the only complete theatre project ever attempted by Handel, and he composed the music when he was nearly 65.
Movements
- Ouverture
Act I
- Grand entree
- Accompagnato. Ye happy people
- Triumph, Hymen, in the pair
- Still caressing and caress'd
- Air. Ye swift minutes as ye fly
- O bless, ye pow'rs above
- Air. Gentle Morpheus, son of night
Act IV
- Air. Ye fleeting shades, I come
- Thrice happy who in life excel
- "Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove"
- Si replica il Core precedente: Thrice happy
- Air. Come, Fancy, empress of the brain
- Symphony and Accompagnato. He comes, he rises from below
- All hail, thou mighty son of Jove!
- Symphony: Larghetto
- Recitative. From high Olympus' top, the seat of God
- Air. Tune your harps, all ye Nine
- Ballo primo: Un peu lentement
- L'ultimato ballo
- Triumph, thou son of Jove