Ode for St. Secilia's Day

Album by George Frideric Handel & Adele Addison & John McCollum & Rutgers University Choir & Leonard Bernstein

Ode for St Cecilia's Day is an ode by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1739. Scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra in the Baroque style, it features contrapuntal choruses, expressive solo numbers and orchestral interludes, and it forms part of Handel's output of dramatic vocal music in the late 1730s.

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  1. 1.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Overture
    6:09
  2. 2.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: From Harmony
    0:22
  3. 3.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: When Nature
    3:34
  4. 4.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: From Harmony
    4:02
  5. 5.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: What Passion Cannot Music Raise
    9:33
  6. 6.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: The Trumpet's Loud Clangour
    4:48
  7. 7.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: March
    2:09
  8. 8.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: The Soft Complaining Flute
    6:12
  9. 9.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Sharp Violins Proclaim
    5:39
  10. 10.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: But Oh! What Art Can Teach
    5:18
  11. 11.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Orpheus Could Lead the Savage Race
    2:33
  12. 12.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: But Bright Cecilia
    0:49
  13. 13.
    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: As From the Power of Sacred Lays
    9:02

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