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George Frideric Handel

L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV.55

HWV 55 Vocal

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.

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Movements

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

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