“Hail! Bright Cecilia”, Z. 328 by Henry Purcell. 184 recordings in this catalogue, from 1956 to 2025.
Movements
I. Symphony
II. “Hail! Bright Cecilia”
III. “Hark! Hark! Each tree its silence breaks”
IV. “’Tis nature’s voice”
V. “Soul of the world”
VI. “Thou tun’st this world”
VII. “With that sublime celestial lay”
VIII. “Wondrous machine!”
IX. “The airy violin”
X. “In vain the am’rous flute”
XI. “The fife and all the harmony of war”
XII. “Let these amongst themselves contest”
XIII. “Hail! Bright Cecilia, hail to thee”
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