Handels Alceste HWV 45 is sung in English: it is the incidental music for Tobias Smolletts English play, and the LOiseau-Lyre 421 479-2 booklet prints the sung texts in English with German and French translations marked Uebersetzung DECCA 1989 / Traduction DECCA 1989. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alceste_(Handel)

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