L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV.55
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (The Cheerful Man, the Thoughtful Man and the Moderate Man), HWV 55, is a pastoral ode by George Frideric Handel based on the poetry of John Milton.
Movements
- Part I, no. 1. Accompagnato “Hence, Loathed Melancholy” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 2. Accompagnato “Hence, Vain Delugind Joys” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 3. Air “Come, Thou Goddess Fair and Free” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 4. Air “Come Rather, Goddess, Sage and Holy” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 5. Air & Chorus “Haste Thee, Nymph, and Bring” (L’Allegro, Chorus)
- Part I, no. 6. Air & Chorus “Come and Trip It as You Go” (L’Allegro, Chorus)
- Part I, no. 7. Accompagnato “Come, Pensive Nun, Devout” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 8. Air “Come, but Keep Thy Wonted State” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 9. Accompagnato & Chorus “There, Held in Holy Passion” (Il Penseroso, Chorus)
- Part I, no. 10. Recitative “Hence, Loathed Melancholy!” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 11. Air “Mirth, Admit Me of Thy Crew” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 12. Accompagnato “First, and Chief, on Golden Wing” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 13. Air “Sweet Bird” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 14. Recitative “If I Give Thee Honour Due” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 15. Air “Mirth, Admit Me of Thy Crew” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 16. Air “Oft on a Plat of Rising Ground” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 17. Air “Far From All Resort of Mirth” (Il Penseroso)
- Part I, no. 18. Recitative “If I Give Thee Honour Due” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 19. Air “Let Me Wander Not Unseen” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 20. Air “Straight Mine Eye Hath Caught New Pleasures” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 21. Accompagnato “Mountains, on Whose Barren Breast” (L’Allegro)
- Part I, no. 22. Air & Chorus “Or Let the Merry Bells Ring Round” (L’Allegro, Chorus)
- Part II, no. 23. Accompagnato “Henve, Vain Deluding Joys” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 24. Air “Sometimes Let Gorgeous Tragedy” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 25. Air “But o, Sad Virgin, That Thy Pow’r” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 26. Air “Thus, Night, Oft See Me in Thy Pale Career” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 27. Chorus “Populous Cities Please Me Then” (L’Allegro, Chorus)
- Part II, no. 28. Air “There Let Hymen Oft Appear” (L’Allegro)
- Part II, no. 29. Accompagnato “Me, When the Sun Begins to Fling” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 30. Air “Hide Me From Day’s Garish Eye” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 31. Air “I’ll to the Well-Trod Stage Anon” (L’Allegro)
- Part II, no. 32. Air “And Ever Against Eating Cares” (L’Allegro)
- Part II, no. 33. Air “Orpheus’ Self May Heave His Head” (L’Allegro)
- Part II, no. 34. Air & Chorus “These Delights If Thou Canst Give” (L’Allegro, Chorus)
- Part II, no. 35. Recitative “But Let My Due Feet Never Fail” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 36. Chorus “There Let the Pealing Organ Blow” (Chorus, Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 37. Air “May at Last My Weary Age” (Il Penseroso)
- Part II, no. 38. Fugue. Organo ad libitum
- Part II, no. 39. Chorus “These Pleasures, Melancholy, Give” (Il Penseroso, Chorus)
- Part III, no. 40. Accompagnato “Hence! Boast Not, Ye Profane” (Il Moderato)
- Part III, no. 41. Air “Come, With Native Lustre Shine” (Il Moderato)
- Part III, no. 42. Accompagnato & Chorus “Sweet Temp’rance” (Il Moderato, Chorus)
- Part III, no. 43. Air “Come, With Gentle Hand Restrain” (Il Moderato)
- Part III, no. 44. Recitative “No More Short Life They Then Will Spend” (Il Moderato)
- Part III, no. 45. Air “Each Action Will Derive New Grace” (Il Moderato)
- Part III, no. 46. Duet “As Steals the Morn Upon the Night” (Il Moderato)
- Part III, no. 47. Chorus “Thy Pleasures, Moderation, Give” (Chorus)

