Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day / Britten: Choral Dances (from "Gloriana")

Compilation by George Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten; Heather Harper, Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Released 1999

Tracklist

  • 1
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Menuet I/II
    George Frideric Handel
    6:28
  • 2
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Recitative "From harmony, from heav’nly harmony"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:38
  • 3
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Chorus "From harmony, from heav’nly harmony"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:53
  • 4
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "What passion cannot music raise and quell!"
    George Frideric Handel
    8:22
  • 5
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Solo and Chorus "The trumpet’s loud clangor"
    George Frideric Handel
    3:50
  • 6
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: March
    George Frideric Handel
    1:08
  • 7
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "The soft complaining flute"
    George Frideric Handel
    5:50
  • 8
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs"
    George Frideric Handel
    5:03
  • 9
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "But oh! what art can teach"
    George Frideric Handel
    5:05
  • 10
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "Orpheus could lead the savage race"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:58
  • 11
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Accompagnato "But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder higher"
    George Frideric Handel
    1:15
  • 12
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Solo and Chorus "As from the power of sacred lays"
    George Frideric Handel
    2:37
  • 13
    Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Chorus: "The dead shall live, the living die"
    George Frideric Handel
    4:56
  • 14
    Hankin Booby
    Benjamin Britten
    2:38
  • 15
    Choral Dances from "Gloriana"
    Benjamin Britten
    11:41

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