Song for St.Cecilia’s Day for soprano, tenor, choir, strings and continuo, HWV  76 (Handel)

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)


Song for St.Cecilia’s Day for soprano, tenor, choir, strings and continuo, HWV 76

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Handel sets a poem which the English poet John Dryden wrote in 1687. The main theme of the text is the Pythagorean theory of harmonia mundi, that music was a central force in the Earth`s creation....Read more
Handel sets a poem which the English poet John Dryden wrote in 1687. The main theme of the text is the Pythagorean theory of harmonia mundi, that music was a central force in the Earth`s creation.

1. Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Alegro - Minuet
2. Recitative (tenor): From harmony, from heavenly harmony
3. Chorus: From harmony, from heavenly harmony
4. Aria (soprano): What passion cannot music raise and quell!
5. Aria (tenor) and Chorus: The trumpet`s loud clangour
6. March
7. Aria (soprano): The soft complaining flute
8. Aria (tenor): Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs
9. Aria (soprano): But oh! What art can teach
10.Aria (soprano): Orpheus could lead the savage race
11.Recitative (soprano): But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher
12.Grand Chorus with (soprano): As from the power of sacred lays

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