Choir & Organ (Nov, 2012)
The Edinburgh ensemble Ludus Baroque, bravely recorded by Delphian in the Canongate Kirk on the Royal Mile, is glorious in a Handel programme featuring the Song for St Cecilia’s Day. The instrumental roster includes some of the UK’s leading baroque specialists and the results are every bit as elegant as one might expect in support of a responsive chorus and a pair of outstanding soloists, Mary Bevan (soprano) and the fiery Ed Lyon (tenor), conveying Dryden’s text as though their very lives depended on it. …
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Handel: Song For St Cecilia’s Day – Ludus Baroque / Neville-Towle
Ode zum St. Cäcilien-Tag HWV 76
Ouverture
Rezitativ: From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
Chor: From harmony, from heav’nly harmony
Arie: What passion cannot music raise and quell?
Arie: The trumpet’s loud clangour
La marche
Arie: The soft complaining flute
Arie: Sharp violins proclaim
Arie: But oh! What art can teach?
Arie: Orpheus could lead the savage race
Rezitativ: But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r
Chor: As from the pow’r of sacred lays
Concerto grosso B-Dur op. 6 Nr. 7 HWV 325
1. Largo – Allegro
2. Largo e piano
3. Andante
4. Hornpipe
Look down, harmonious Saint
WT 01
Richard Ludus Baroque / Neville-Towle
20,60€
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