Odes for the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia: Hail! Bright Cecilia!, Welcome to All the Pleasures
Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
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Sumptuous musical feasts!
Two Odes composed for the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia in 1683 and 1692; two very different was of treating the glorification of an art form in which Purcell was the master. Welcome to all the pleasures calls for a relatively small formation and seems to have been concieved entirely in the Italian style (if not for Italian use). Eight years later, Hail! bright Caecilia turned out to be a fabulous hymn to music, as rich and varied as the act of an opera – a veritable Baroque fireworks which is among Purcell’s greatest achievements.
Hail! bright Cecilia!
Vivat ! Radieuse Cécile, vivat !
Heil Dir, herrliche Cäcilie, heil!
· Symphony Maestoso - Canzona. Allegro - Adagio - Allegro - Grave (9'42)
· Hail! bright Cecilia! (3'47)
· Hark! hark! Each Tree (4'10)
· ‘Tis Nature’s Voice (4'20)
· Soul of the World! (2'20)
· Thou tun’st this World (5'14)
· With that sublime Celestial Lay (3'15)
· Wondrous Machine! (2'27)
· The airy Violin (1'38)
· In vain the Am’rous flute (6'09)
· The fife and all the Harmony of War (3'18)
· Let these among themselves contest (3'10)
· Hail! bright Cecilia! (4'31)
Welcome to all the pleasures
Bienvenue à tous les plaisirs
Willkommen, ihr Freuden alle
· Symphony (3'42)
· Welcome to all the pleasures (1'49)
· Here the deities approve (4'36)
· While joys celestial (1'48)
· Then lift up your voices (2'09)
· Beauty thou scene of love (3'15)
· In a consort of voices (1'13)
