Ode To St. Cecilias Day

George Frideric Handel (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

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Audio CD (Mar 17 2008)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Archiv Prod Import
ASIN: B0000ALKPY
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #107,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Overture

2. Recitative/Accompagnato (Tenor): 'From Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony...'

3. Chorus: 'From Harmony, From Heav'nly Harmony'

4. Aria (Soprano): 'What Passion Cannot Music Raise And Quell'

5. Aria (Tenor) And Chorus: 'The Trumpet's Loud Clangor'

6. March

7. Aria (Soprano): 'The Soft Complaining Flute'

8. Aria (Tenor): 'Sharp Violins Proclaim'

9. Aria (Soprano): 'But Oh! What Art Can Teach'

10. Aria (Soprano): 'Orpheus Could Lead The Savage Race'

11. Accompagnato (Soprano): 'But Vright Cecilia'

12. Soprano And Chorus: 'As From The Pow'r Of Sacred Lays'

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Nice early music discovery July 31 2005

By J. Oakley - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Audio CD

Trevor Pinnock (conductor and elite harpsichordist) has a playful yet disciplined style that works well for this music. It is a relatively short CD (around 40min, I believe) with a broad arch from playful prelude to meditative finale. I return to it often.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Good, solid perfromance with a quick tempo Jan 24 2009

By Markian Gooley - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Pinnock keeps things moving with a lively tempo that's never too fast: the opening and the march are slow and stately enough, as are the slower, more meditative numbers and the "deaconing" of the chorus by the soprano that starts the finale. The tenor has a few quirks, whether his own or due to Pinnock, notably a huge and almost comical scoop up to the high note of "The trumpet's loud clangor" that pretty much breaks the mood (not a glorification of war but the recognition of its reality, as the words "`tis too late to retreat'" in Dryden's text make clear, and the matter-of-fact tone from tenor and chorus is otherwise spot on). Maybe that's historically authentic, but it's jarring.

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