Handel: An Ode for St Cecilia's Day
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: An Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Carolyn Sampson (soprano) James Gilchrist (tenor) / Choir of the King's Consort, The King's Consort Robert King, director
[ Hyperion / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 3 November 2004
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GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE CD OF THE MONTH/EDITOR'S CHOICE
"This is a mouth-watering performance of Handel's colourfully gorgeous ode … the recording is in a class of its own when it comes to the seemingly effortless, beautiful singing of Carolyn Sampson, now the best British early music soprano by quite some distance … notwithstanding many agreeable past achievements, King has seldom produced a disc of such outstanding conviction" Gramophone
Tracks:
An Ode for St Cecilia's Day HWV76 [48'45]
Overture
Recitative: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
Aria: When Nature underneath a heap
Chorus: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
Aria: What passion cannot Music raise and quell!
Aria and Chorus: The trumpet's loud clangour
March
Aria: The soft complaining flute
Aria: Sharp violins proclaim
Aria: But oh! What art can teach
Aria: Orpheus could lead the savage race
Accompagnato: But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher
Solo and Chorus: As from the pow'r of sacred lays
Cecilia, volgi un sguardo HWV89 [28'55]
Recitative: Cecilia, volgi un sguardo
Aria: La Virtute è un vero nume
Recitative: Tu, armonica Cecilia
Aria: Splenda l'alba in oriente
Recitative: Carco sempre di gloria
Aria: Sei cara, sei bella
Recitative: È ben degna di lode
Duetto: Tra amplessi innocenti
