Händel Alceste Aria ''Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove'' HWV45

George Frideric Händel (1685 † 1759)

As steals the morn...
Arias & Scenes for Tenor

Alceste semi-opera, HWV45

Libretto: Tobias Smollett
（托比亞斯。斯摩萊特（Tobias Smollett, 1721-1771）是英國18世紀中葉頗具特色的小說家。他的《藍登傳》（The Adventures of Roderick Random）繼承歐洲流浪漢小說傳統，布局鬆散，是一連串發展迅速、好惡交替、變化急劇的冒險經曆的組合。）

Never performed; project abandoned in February 1750.

Aria ''Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove''

Alceste:
Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove,
seat of pleasure, seat of love;
pleasure that never cloy,
love the source of endless joy.

Thus, thou unpolluted shade,
be thy royal virtues paid.


Mark Padmore, (Tenor)