Ode On St. Cecilia's Day (1692)

Album by Henry Purcell & Simon Woolf & Paul Esswood & Roland Tatnell & Alexander Young & Michael Rippon & John Shirley‐Quirk & Tiffin Boys’ Choir & Ambrosian Singers & English Chamber Orchestra & Charles Mackerras

Ode on St Cecilia's Day is a 1692 ode by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Written for voices and ensemble in the Baroque idiom, it combines choral writing, solo airs and orchestral passages with contrapuntal and harmonic invention, and it occupies a position among Purcell's ceremonial vocal works and within the English Baroque tradition.
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  1. 1.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): I. Overture: Maestoso – Cancona (Presto • Adagio • Allegro • Adagio)
    11:45
  2. 2.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): II. “Hail! Bright Cecilia”
    0:27
  3. 3.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): II. “Hail! Bright Cecilia”
    3:28
  4. 4.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): III. “Hark, Each Tree” (Duett)
    4:52
  5. 5.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): IV. “Tis Nature’s Voice”
    3:43
  6. 6.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): V. “Soul of the World”
    2:55
  7. 7.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): VI. “Thou Tun’St This World” (Arie Und Chor)
    3:37
  8. 8.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): VII. “With That Sublime Celestial Lay” (Terzett)
    2:50
  9. 9.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): VIII. “Wondrous Machine”
    3:19
  10. 10.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): IX. “The Airy Violin”
    1:37
  11. 11.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): X. “In Vain the Am’Rous Flute” (Duett)
    5:40
  12. 12.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): XI. “The Fife and All the Harmony of War”
    3:05
  13. 13.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): XII. “Let These Among Themselves Contest” (Duett)
    3:15
  14. 14.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): XIII. “Hail! Bright Cecilia”
    2:08
  15. 15.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): XIII. “With Rapture of Delight” (Quartett)
    0:56
  16. 16.
    Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692): XIII. “Hail! Bright Cecilia”
    1:16

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