Georg Friedrich Händel
Song for St Cecilia´s Day HWV 76
Ode to St Cecilia
Georg Friedrich Händel
Song for St Cecilia´s Day HWV 76
Ode to St Cecilia
- Instrumentation Soloists (SATB), Mixed Choir (SATB), Flute, 2 Oboes, 2 Trumpets, Timpani, 2 Violins, Viola and Continuo
- Edition instrumental Part Cello, Double Bass, Lute, Harpsichord, and Organ
- Composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
- Series Bärenreiter Urtext
- Editor Stephan Blaut
- Order no. BA10722-82
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Description:
Following upon 'Alexander's Feast' (1736), in 1739 Handel produced a second setting of the 'Ode to St Cecilia' ('Song for St Cecilia's Day'). At its première it was combined with 'Alexander's Feast'. Rather than a dramatic plot presentable in the theatre, the Ode, in its seven sections, offers a general hymn of praise to music and its impact. Accordingly, it largely consists of emotion-laden arias and festive orchestration.
This edition, based on the Urtext from the 'Halle Handel Edition', offers the version heard at the first performance - the version preferred in today's concert life. The foreword (Ger/Eng) provides many detailed notes on performance practice with regard to orchestration.
This edition, based on the Urtext from the 'Halle Handel Edition', offers the version heard at the first performance - the version preferred in today's concert life. The foreword (Ger/Eng) provides many detailed notes on performance practice with regard to orchestration.
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Ouverture
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Menuet I
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Menuet II
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Recitative From harmony, from heav'nly harmony Tenore solo
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1. Accompagnato When nature underneath a heap Tenore solo
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2. Chorus From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
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3. Air What passion cannot music raise and quell? Soprano solo
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4. Air and Chorus The trumpet's loud clangour Tenore solo and Chorus
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5. La Marche
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6. Air The soft complaining flute Soprano solo
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7. Air Sharp violins proclaim Tenore solo
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8. Air But oh! what art can teach Soprano solo
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9. Air Orpheus could lead the savage race Soprano solo
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10. Accompagnato But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r Soprano solo
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11. Solo and Chorus As from the pow'r of sacred lays Soprano solo and Chorus
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