King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I, Scene II, 4. “Woden first to thee” (tenor, bass and chorus)

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BASS
Woden, first to thee
A milk-white steed, in battle won,
We have sacrific'd.

CHORUS
We have sacrific'd.

TENOR II
Let our next oblation be
To Thor, thy thund'ring son,
Of such another.

CHORUS
We have sacrific'd.

BASS
A third (of Friesland breed was he)
To Woden's wife, and to Thor's mother;
And now we have aton'd all three.

CHORUS
We have sacrific'd.

Annotation last modified on 2024-09-19 16:30 UTC.

Relationships

composer:Henry Purcell (Baroque composer)
librettist:John Dryden (English poet)
part of:King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I (order: 5)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1978-10King Arthur: Act I, Scene II. "Woden first to thee", "Brave Souls", "I call ye all"Maurice Bevan, Paul Elliott, Mark Deller, Honor Sheppard, Alfred Deller, Deller Choir10:26
1983-01-10 – 1983-01-27King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Woden, first to thee” – “The white horse neigh’d aloud” – “To Woden thanks we render”Paul Elliott, Monteverdi Choir, Ashley Stafford, Stephen Varcoe, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner3:40
1991-06King Arthur: Act I. “Woden, first to thee” / “We have sacrific’d”Choir of the English Concert, Jamie MacDougall, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock2:20
1995-02King Arthur: Act I. "Woden, first to thee"Les Arts Florissants, Mark Padmore, Luthea Salom2:50
2003-10King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Woden first to thee”Joseph Cornwell, Peter Harvey, Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet1:57
2012King Arthur: "Woden, First To Thee" / "The White Horse Neigh'd Aloud" / "To Woden Thanks We Render"BarokOpera Amsterdam, Frédérique Chauvet3:40
2018-01King Arthur, Z. 628: Act I. “Woden, first to thee”Robert Buckland, Sebastian Myrus, Vox Luminis2:19