Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day / Britten: Choral Dances (from "Gloriana")
Benjamin Britten · Philip Ledger · Peter Pears · Osian Ellis · English Chamber Orchestra · Ambrosian Singers · Julian Bream · Philip Jones · Richard Adeney · Heather Harper
Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day / Britten: Choral Dances (from "Gloriana") (1999), CD, on BBC Music. Music by George Frideric Handel, Benjamin Britten, performed by Benjamin Britten, Philip Ledger, Peter Pears, Osian Ellis; 13 tracks.
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Tracklist
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Menuet I/II
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Recitative "From harmony, from heav’nly harmony"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Chorus "From harmony, from heav’nly harmony"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "What passion cannot music raise and quell!"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Solo and Chorus "The trumpet’s loud clangor"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "The soft complaining flute"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "But oh! what art can teach"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Aria "Orpheus could lead the savage race"
Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Accompagnato "But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder higher"