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Friday 17th April 2026

CD 315

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Title : Handel – Ode for St Cecilia's Day

Label : Das Alte Werk [2000]

Performer(s) : Felicity Palmer, soprano; Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor; Stockholm Bach Choir: Anders Öhrwall; Concentus Musicus Wien: Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Tracks 1-11 : George Frideric Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day
1. Overture -- From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony (ten. recit.) -- When Nature underneath a heap (ten. accomp.)
2. From Harmony, from heav'nly Harmony (chor.)
3. What passion cannot Music raise and quell? (sop. aria)
4. The Trumpet loud clangor (ten. & chor.)
5. La Marche
6. The soft complaining Flute (sop. aria)
7. Sharp Violins proclaim (ten. aria)
8. But oh! what art can teach (sop. aria)
9. Orpheus could lead the savage race (sop. aria)
10. But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r (sop. accomp.)
11. As from the pow'r of sacred lays (chor.)

Composer(s):  George Frideric Handel
Performer(s):  Felicity Palmer,  Anthony Rolfe Johnson,  Anders Öhrwall,  Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Ensemble(s):  Stockholm Bach Choir,  Concentus Musicus Wien

 

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