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Alfred : extended extracts
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- Creator
- Thomas Arne
- Other Title
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- Title on container: Thomas Arne's Alfred : an early English opera
- Included Title
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- BBC music magazine
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- [London] : BBC Music Magazine, [1997]
- ℗1997
- Physical Details
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- 1 audio disc (51 min., 2 sec.) : digital, stereophonic ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocm37329530
- Credits
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- Catherine Pierard, Ruth Holton, sopranos ; Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano ; Nicholas Sears, Mark Padmore, tenors ; Stephen Wallace, countertenor ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
- Extended excerpts from his "English opera"--Program notes.
- Issued with BBC music magazine, vol. 5, no. 10 (June 1997).
- Compact disc.
- Program notes by Jonathan Keates ([2] p.) inserted in container.
- Recorded at Studio 1, Maida Vale, London, Oct. 16-17, 1995.
- Act I. Overture (6:30) ; The shepherd's plain life (3:33) ; Sweet valley say (2:01) ; Let not those who love complain (4:00) -- Act II. Love's the tyrant of the heart (3:32) ; From the dawn of early morning (5:44) ; Hear, Alfred, hear (2:29) ; Gracious heav'n, O hear me (5:30) ; Vengeance, O come inspire me! (6:15) ; There honour comes (2:28) -- Act III. Ah me, what fears oppress-- Guardian angels, O descend (3:02) ; March with a side drum (1:34) ; Rule, Britannia (4:17)