Handel: Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

Album by George Frideric Handel

Handel: Song for St. Cecilia’s Day is an ode by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1739. The work is a Baroque choral composition for soloists, chorus and orchestra that features contrapuntal choruses, expressive vocal declamation and bright orchestral textures, and it sits within Handel's mature English-period output as an example of his large-scale ceremonial and dramatic vocal writing.

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  1. 1.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: Overture
    6:35
  2. 2.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: From harmony, from heav’nly harmony (Tenor recitative)
    2:57
  3. 3.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: From harmony, from heav’nly harmony (Chorus)
    3:46
  4. 4.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: What passion cannot music raise and quell? (Soprano air)
    9:32
  5. 5.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: The trumpet’s loud clangour (Tenor air and Chorus)
    3:44
  6. 6.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: La Marche
    1:48
  7. 7.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: The soft complaining flute (Soprano air)
    5:31
  8. 8.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: Sharp violins proclaim (Tenor air)
    4:23
  9. 9.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: But oh! what art can teach? (Soprano air)
    5:33
  10. 10.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: Orpheus could lead the savage race (Soprano air)
    1:56
  11. 11.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r (Soprano recitative)
    0:52
  12. 12.
    Song for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76: As from the pow’r of sacred lays (Soprano and chorus)
    7:26
  13. 13.
    Concerto Grosso in B‐Flat Major, HWV 325, Op. 6 No. 7: Largo - Allegro
    3:52
  14. 14.
    Concerto Grosso in B‐Flat Major, HWV 325, Op. 6 No. 7: Largo e Piano
    2:39
  15. 15.
    Concerto Grosso in B‐Flat Major, HWV 325, Op. 6 No. 7: Andante
    4:04
  16. 16.
    Concerto Grosso in B‐Flat Major, HWV 325, Op. 6 No. 7: Hornpipe
    3:26
  17. 17.
    Look Down, Harmonious Saint, HWV 124: Musick! That all‐persuading art - Sweet accents all your numbers grace
    11:44

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