Gabrieli Consort & Players under Paul McCreesh, with Gillian Webster (soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor) and Ashley Riches (baritone).
Handel's oratorio 'L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato'.
(Handel's ravishing oratorio setting Milton's examination of the contrasting sides of the human personality - the lively and the pensive - contains some of the composer's most delicate and poetic evocations of English town and country, including the famous aria 'Sweet bird'.)
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