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

Song for St.Cecilia’s Day for soprano, tenor, choir, strings and continuo, HWV  76 (Handel)
ALSFELDER VOKALENSEMBLE. Recorded in the Maria Magdalenen Kirche, Templin (Germany), August 12-16, 1999.
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