Hail! Bright Cecilia

Album by Henry Purcell & Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Hail! Bright Cecilia is an ode by English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, composed in 1692. The work is scored for soloists, choir and Baroque orchestra and combines ornate vocal writing, contrapuntal textures and colourful orchestration characteristic of late 17th-century English Baroque, representing one of Purcell's later ceremonial odes and illustrating the St Cecilia ode tradition within his career.
First released: 1983

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphony
    9:37
  2. 2.
    Hail ! Bright Cecilia
    4:43
  3. 3.
    Hark each tree
    3:59
  4. 4.
    'Tis Nature's Voice
    4:13
  5. 5.
    Soul of the World
    2:33
  6. 6.
    Thou tun'st this world
    5:13
  7. 7.
    With that sublime celestial lay
    3:07
  8. 8.
    Wondrous machine
    2:16
  9. 9.
    The airy violin
    1:22
  10. 10.
    In vain the am'rous flute
    6:19
  11. 11.
    The fife and all the harmony of war
    3:02
  12. 12.
    Let these amongst themselves contest
    2:31
  13. 13.
    Hail ! Bright Cecilia
    4:19

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