Tracklist

  • 1
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 1. Overture: I Vivace - Adagio - Allegro
    William Boyce
    3:33
  • 2
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 1. Overture: II Gavot: Andante
    William Boyce
    1:37
  • 3
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 1. Overture: III Minuetto allegro
    William Boyce
    1:40
  • 4
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 2. Chorus. See the fam'd Apollo and the Nine
    William Boyce
    3:20
  • 5
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 3. Duet. Immortal Love, with tuneful lyres
    William Boyce
    6:39
  • 6
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 4. Recitative. Aloft the strains melodious swiftly fly
    William Boyce
    0:46
  • 7
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 5. Aria. What a tender, virtuous passion
    William Boyce
    3:16
  • 8
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 6. Recitative. Hark the loud trumpet calls a youth to arms
    William Boyce
    0:49
  • 9
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 7. Aria. The hero whom a fair one fires
    William Boyce
    4:47
  • 10
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 8. Recitative. Ah! say, could Painting, could the weeping muse
    William Boyce
    0:33
  • 11
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 9. Aria. What cruel pangs the lover feels
    William Boyce
    3:55
  • 12
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 10. Recitative. Thus, whilst the Muse Love's boundless influence sings
    William Boyce
    0:13
  • 13
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 11. Chorus. Sprung from Gods, immortal Love
    William Boyce
    1:44
  • 14
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 12. Overture. Largo - Allegro
    William Boyce
    3:21
  • 15
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 13. Chorus. Hail, Harmony!
    William Boyce
    4:22
  • 16
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 14. Aria. Glorious Power, to thee we owe
    William Boyce
    1:26
  • 17
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 15. Recitative. At Music's sacred name
    William Boyce
    0:42
  • 18
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 16. Aria. With celestial glory crown'd
    William Boyce
    3:24
  • 19
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 17. Recitatative. Mortals, in hymns of tuneful joy
    William Boyce
    4:58
  • 20
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 18. Aria. Music, gently soothing Power
    William Boyce
    5:58
  • 21
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 19. Recitative. Pleas'd the celestial visitant surveys
    William Boyce
    0:47
  • 22
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 20. Duet. As nature with the sun revives
    William Boyce
    3:37
  • 23
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 21. Aria. The captive, bound in rankling chains
    William Boyce
    6:18
  • 24
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 22. Recitative. The melting theme transports each mortal breast
    William Boyce
    0:29
  • 25
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 23. Aria. Music can the passions raise
    William Boyce
    1:35
  • 26
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 24. Recitative. Now the ætherial lyrist sweeps the strings
    William Boyce
    0:14
  • 27
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 25. Aria. Mortals, scorn the boasted Nine
    William Boyce
    2:23
  • 28
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 26. Recitative. Leave transient joys, and raise the theme
    William Boyce
    1:32
  • 29
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: Allegro. Thus will your hymns, like incense, rise
    William Boyce
    0:23
  • 30
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: No. 27. Chorus. Display His goodness, Hail His might
    William Boyce
    3:17

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