Handel Song for St Cecilia´s Day HWV76 for Vocal Score

Ouverture

Menuet I

Menuet II

Recitative From harmony, from heav’nly harmony (Tenore solo)

1. Accompagnato When nature underneath a heap (Tenore solo)

2. Chorus From harmony, from heav’nly harmony

3. Air What passion cannot music raise and quell? (Soprano solo)

4. Air and Chorus The trumpet’s loud clangour (Tenore solo and Chorus)

5. La Marche

6. Air The soft complaining flute (Soprano solo)

7. Air Sharp violins proclaim (Tenore solo)

8. Air But oh! what art can teach (Soprano solo)

9. Air Orpheus could lead the savage race (Soprano solo)

10. Accompagnato But bright Cecilia rais’d the wonder high’r (Soprano solo)

11. Solo and Chorus As from the pow’r of sacred lays (Soprano solo and Chorus)

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.

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작곡가 Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)

에디터 Blaut, Stephan