Ode for St Cecilia's Day (1739)

Album by George Frideric Handel & Dorothee Mields & Mark Wilde & Alsfelder Vokalensemble & Concerto Polacco & Wolfgang Helbich

Ode for St Cecilia's Day is an ode by Georg Friedrich Händel, composed in 1739. Scored for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, it exemplifies Handel's Baroque choral and orchestral writing and reflects his engagement with English choral traditions and the development of dramatic choral-orchestral forms in the late 1730s.
First released: February 2004

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Overture
    3:33
  2. 2.
    Interlude
    1:23
  3. 3.
    Recitative: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
    3:21
  4. 4.
    Chorus: From harmony
    3:28
  5. 5.
    Air: What passion cannot Music raise
    8:18
  6. 6.
    Air and chorus: The trumpet's loud clangour
    3:22
  7. 7.
    March
    2:05
  8. 8.
    Air: The soft complaining flute
    5:05
  9. 9.
    Air: Sharp violins proclaim
    4:11
  10. 10.
    Air: But oh! what art can teach
    4:15
  11. 11.
    Air: Orpheus could lead the savage race
    1:42
  12. 12.
    Recitative: But bright Cecilia
    0:42
  13. 13.
    Air and chorus: As from the powers of sacred lays
    7:11

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