Alexander Young - listen to all songs

The Seasons, Spring: Overture

The Seasons, Spring: Recitative: O see where cruel Winter flies

The Seasons, Spring: Chorus: Come, gentle Spring!

The Seasons, Spring: Recitative: From Aries rolls at last the bounteous sun

The Seasons, Spring: Air: Now fairly runs the farmer's boy

The Seasons, Spring: Recitative: The farmer has his work achieved

The Seasons, Spring: Trio and chorus: Be now gracious, smiling heaven!

The Seasons, Spring: Recitative: Now heard are all our prayers

The Seasons, Spring: Trio and Chorus: O how lovely gleams the outlook

The Seasons, Spring: Chorus and Trio: Ageless! Powerful! Bountiful God!

The Seasons, Summer: Recitative: In dove-grey mantle drawing near

The Seasons, Summer: Air: The lively swain is gath'ring now his happy flocks

The Seasons, Summer: Recitative: The rosy morning breaks forth

The Seasons, Summer: Trio and Chorus: He's mounting up, the Sun

The Seasons, Summer: Recitative: Now all are a stir

The Seasons, Summer: Recitative: The midday sun is burning now

The Seasons, Summer: Cavatina: Oppress'd succumbs all Nature now

The Seasons, Summer: Recitative: Oh welcome now, you shadier grove

The Seasons, Summer: Air: So reviving to the senses

The Seasons, Summer: Recitative: Oh see! Now rising in the sultry air

The Seasons, Summer: Chorus: Hark the tempset drawing night

The Seasons, Summer: Trio and Chorus: The gloomy clouds now part aside

The Seasons, Autumn: Overture

The Seasons, Autumn: Recitative: All that through her blossom fair Spring

The Seasons, Autumn: Trio and Chorus: So Nature gives reward to Zeal

The Seasons, Autumn: Recitative: Now see! To hazel bushes there the youngsters

The Seasons, Autumn: Duet: You beauties of the town

The Seasons, Autumn: Recitative: Now see, on new-stripp'd harvest field

The Seasons, Autumn: Air: There look across the open fields!

The Seasons, Autumn: Recitative: Here beaters, closing in, put up the hares

The Seasons, Autumn: Chorus: Hark! The clamorous noise that through the wood

The Seasons, Autumn: Recitative: On all the vines are glist'ning

The Seasons, Autumn: Chorus: Cheer now! The wine is here

The Seasons, Winter: Introduction

The Seasons, Winter: Recitative: Now sinks the pale declining year

The Seasons, Winter: Cavatina: Light and life are both enfeeled

The Seasons, Winter: Recitative: All fetter'd lies the open lake

The Seasons, Winter: Air: Here stands the wand'rer now

The Seasons, Winter: Recitative: At his approach rings in his ear

The Seasons, Winter: Song and Chorus: Purring, whirring, purring

The Seasons, Winter: Recitative: The flax has now been spun

The Seasons, Winter: Song and Chorus: A maid who kept her honour fair

The Seasons, Winter: Recitative: From barren East now thrust far keener icy blasts

The Seasons, Winter: Air: Before thee here, deluded man

The Seasons, Winter: Recitative: Remains, alone, and is our guide

The Seasons, Winter: Trio and Chorus: Then breaks the glorious day at last

The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3, Spring: Recitative. The farmer has his work acheived (Lukas)

The Seasons, Hob. XXI:3, Spring: Be now gracious, smiling heaven! (Nancy, Lukas, Simon, Chorus)