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
- 1Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Menuet I/IIGeorge Frideric Handel6:28
- 2Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Recitative "From harmony, from heav’nly harmony"George Frideric Handel3:38
- 3Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Chorus "From harmony, from heav’nly harmony"George Frideric Handel3:53
- 4Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "What passion cannot music raise and quell!"George Frideric Handel8:22
- 5Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Solo and Chorus "The trumpet’s loud clangor"George Frideric Handel3:50
- 6Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: MarchGeorge Frideric Handel1:08
- 7Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "The soft complaining flute"George Frideric Handel5:50
- 8Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs"George Frideric Handel5:03
- 9Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "But oh! what art can teach"George Frideric Handel5:05
- 10Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "Orpheus could lead the savage race"George Frideric Handel1:58
- 11Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Accompagnato "But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder higher"George Frideric Handel1:15
- 12Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Solo and Chorus "As from the power of sacred lays"George Frideric Handel2:37
- 13Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Chorus: "The dead shall live, the living die"George Frideric Handel4:56
- 14Hankin BoobyBenjamin Britten2:38
- 15Choral Dances from "Gloriana"Benjamin Britten11:41
More by George Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten, Heather Harper, Peter Pears, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Release credits
- vocal [14-15]
- conductor
- choir vocals [3, 5, 12-13]
- translator
- re
- performing orchestra
- translator
- soprano vocals [4, 7, 9-10, 12]
- producer [1-13]
- lute [1-13]
- cello [1-13]
- liner notes
- harp [14-15]
- producer [14-15]
- tenor vocals [2, 5, 8, 11, 14-15]
- trumpet [1-13]
- harpsichord [1-13], organ [1-13]
- flute [1-13]
- booklet editor






