Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Album by George Frideric Handel & Dunedin Consort & John Butt & Ian Bostridge & Carolyn Sampson & Chór Polskiego Radia w Krakowie

Ode for St Cecilia's Day is an ode by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1739. Scored for soloists, chorus and orchestra, it exemplifies Handel's mature Baroque style through vivid contrasts between recitative, aria and choral writing and varied orchestral colour, and it occupies a place among his secular choral compositions of the late 1730s.
First released: 12th October 2018

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: I. Overture: Larghetto e staccato
    1:40
  2. 2.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: II. Overture: Allegro
    1:57
  3. 3.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: III. Overture: Minuet
    2:49
  4. 4.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: IV. Recitative: From Harmony, from Heav’nly Harmony
    0:25
  5. 5.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: V. Accompagnato: When Nature Underneath a Heap
    2:53
  6. 6.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: VI. Chorus: From Harmony, from Heav’nly Harmony
    3:27
  7. 7.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: VII. Aria: What Passion Cannot Music Raise and Quell!
    7:30
  8. 8.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: VIII. Aria and Chorus: The Trumpet’s Loud Clangour
    3:37
  9. 9.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: IX. March
    1:47
  10. 10.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: X. Aria: The Soft Complaining Flute
    5:12
  11. 11.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: XI. Aria: Sharp Violins Proclaim
    3:56
  12. 12.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: XII. Aria: But Oh! What Art Can Teach
    5:29
  13. 13.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: XIII. Aria: Orpheus Could Lead the Savage Race
    1:35
  14. 14.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: XIV. Accompagnato: But Bright Cecilia Rais’d the Wonder
    0:45
  15. 15.
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: XV. Solo and Chorus: As from the Pow’r of Sacred Lays
    7:28
  16. 16.
    Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6 No. 4: I. Larghetto affettuoso
    2:32
  17. 17.
    Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6 No. 4: II. Allegro
    2:57
  18. 18.
    Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6 No. 4: III. Largo e piano
    2:13
  19. 19.
    Concerto Grosso in A Minor, Op. 6 No. 4: IV. Allegro
    2:52

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