Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth

Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth

Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth
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Composer: George Frederick Handel
Conductor: Denys Darlow
Performer: Charles Brett
Orchestra: London Handel Orchestra
Performer: Emma Kirkby
Performer: Gillian Fisher
Performer: Ian Partridge
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Music Label: Hyperion UK
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Music CD 1
  1. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Overture
  2. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Chorus. Time is supreme
  3. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. How happy could I linger here
  4. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Faithful mirror, fair-reflecting
  5. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. Fear not! I, Pleasure, swear
  6. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Pensive sorrow, deep-possessing
  7. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Come, come! live with Pleasure
  8. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. Turn, look on me!
  9. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. The Beauty smiling
  10. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. Our different powers we'll try
  11. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Ever-flowing tides of pleasure
  12. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. The hand of Time pulls down
  13. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Loathsome urns, disclose your treasure
  14. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Chorus. Strengthen us, O Time, with all thy lore
  15. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. Too rigid the reproof you give
  16. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Happy, if still they reign in pleasure
  17. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Recitative. Youth is not rich in Time
  18. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 1. Air. Like the shadow, life ever is flying
  19. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Chorus. Pleasure submits to pain
  20. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. Here Pleasure keeps his splendid court
  21. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Chorus. Oh, how great the glory
  22. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. Dryads, Sylvans, with fair Flora
Music CD 2
  1. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. Come, O Time, and thy broad wings displaying
  2. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. Mortals think that Time is sleeping
  3. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. You hope to call in vain
  4. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. False destructive ways of Pleasure
  5. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. Too long deluded you have been
  6. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. Lovely Beauty, close those eyes
  7. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. Seek not to know what known will prove
  8. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. Melancholy
  9. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. What is the present hour? 'tis born and gone!
  10. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. Fain would I, two hearts enjoying
  11. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. Vain the delights of age or youth
  12. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Air. On the valleys, dark and cheerless
  13. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Recitative. Not venial error this, but stubborn pride
  14. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 2. Chorus. Ere to dust is changed thy beauty
  15. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Sinfonia
  16. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Recitative. Once more I thee address
  17. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Recitative. Regard her not. Unvalued here
  18. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Air. Pleasure! My former ways resigning
  19. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Recitative. Since the immortal mirror I possess
  20. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Air. Thus to ground, thou false, delusive
  21. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Recitative. O mighty Truth! thy power I see
  22. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Air. From the heart that feels my warning
  23. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Recitative. Pleasure, too long associates we have been
  24. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Air. Like clouds, stormy winds then impelling
  25. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Recitative. Farewell; - now Truth, descending from the sky
  26. The Triumph of Time and Truth, oratorio, HWV 71: Act 3. Chorus. Alleluja!

Music reviews of Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth

Music Review: TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY AND PLEASURE
Rating: 5 Stars

This lengthy cantata (or secular oratorio) had a complex evolution going back half a century before Handel produced it in its final version in 1758, the last complete year of his life. Much of the music seems to date back to his early 20's and his sojourn in Italy with Italian words and title, there was an intermediate version (still in Italian) from 1737, and the 1758 update is finally in English, including further choral contributions. In the bad old days (not at all long ago) when Handel was still largely unsung and unknown the work was commonly criticised for being a rehash of earlier music. I wonder how such critics would have handled the matter if they had known that exactly the same is true of that fully official masterpiece Bach's Mass in B minor. This was how composers of that era operated, the romantic view that every work of art should be the outcome of fresh inspiration being still well in the future. The libretto is by the Rev Thomas Morell, collaborator with Handel on his last two oratorios Theodora and Jephtha as well as certain others. The text has been criticised, but I will come to the defence of Morell as well as Handel. What I am not clear about is to what extent Morell had to wrap English words round music that had once been set to Italian, but what I do say is that there is not one solitary piece of bad declamation from start to finish. The words fit the music with perfect naturalness. Morell had a special talent in this respect, as can be seen from the pasticcio-Handel oratorios such as Gideon that continued to be produced by Handel's pupil John Christopher Smith, to Morell's words and Handel's recycled music, for years after Handel's own death.

The task in this case surely can't have inspired Morell much. To call the theme, such as it is, of the work platitudinous would be insulting to platitudes. Time passes, we are solemnly informed, with its familiar adverse effects on beauty. The carrot of immortality is dangled rather half-heartedly, and beauty (or rather Beauty) has to choose between resignation to the beast Time or further dalliance with Pleasure, choosing of course the former as was politically correct and edifying to do at that period. With this for a text one thing is for certain - the music had better be good.

Fortunately it is very good indeed. The very fact that Handel resurrected the work in one form or another not once but twice surely suggests that he thought well of it. If so, I agree. The style has far more in common with his later English style than with such early works as the Dixit Dominus or the Brockes Passion, which are much more in the German manner as we know that from Bach. Assuming that much of the music actually does date from that period, it suggests to me that Handel was already developing a new style for secular music very early in his career. Nothing in the galumphing portentousness of the text (`Pleasure! My former ways resigning,/To Virtue's cause inclining,/Thee, Pleasure, now I leave' and similar balderdash) seems to have placed a dampener on his inspiration, which is as fresh as paint from beginning to end. The performance seems very good to me too. It is a `period' performance, and I am rather sorry that no credits are given to the instrumentalists. The vocalists are well-known experts in early 18th century music for the most part, although Ian Partridge as Pleasure is probably better known in the 19th century repertory. His voice has deepened since I first heard him in Schubert's mill songs, and it is probably fair to say that it has coarsened just a little, but his artistry is impeccable and he fits in very well with the rest of the cast. Emma Kirkby is here as Deceit, a fairly small part seemingly added in 1758, Charles Brett has the countertenor role of `Counsel, or Truth', but the stars, for me, are Gillian Fisher as Beauty and maybe most of all Stephen Varcoe as Time.

The recording, from 1982, gives me no problems at all, and the liner essay, by Watkins Shaw, is downright good. Don't let the work's title put you off it. The real triumph here is the triumph of beauty and pleasure.
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