Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Director), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Polish Radio Choir
[ Linn Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 12 October 2018
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Recorded during this year's Misteria Paschalia Festival in Poland, Dunedin Consort present Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day. One of Europe's leading Baroque festivals, Krakow's Misteria Paschalia Festival hosted John Butt as its Residing Director for 2018.Dunedin Consort gave a series of Handel performances including the London version of Messiah, Samsonand Ode for St Cecilia's Day.
For this recording they are joined for the first time by multi award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge and soprano Carolyn Sampson, described as "one of the wonders of the operatic world" (The Independent). Led by John Butt, with singers from the Polish Radio Choir, this rich and colourful tribute to music's patron saint is the latest in their much-lauded Handel discography, which includes recordings of Messiah, Acis & Galatea and Esther, each having won widespread acclaim. The series will be further enhanced by the release of Samson in 2019.The programme is completed by Handel's Concerto Grosso in A minor Op. 6 No. 4, in which Dunedin Consort's exceptional instrumentalists take centre stage.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 - Choral
"[Butt] treads a satisfying path between the detailed, dance-based style of early period-instrument performers like Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the more vigorous manner of Charles Mackerras or John Eliot Gardiner. Everything is at once graceful and uplifting." Financial Times
"Butt's reading with the Dunedins and the Polish choir has irresistible sweetness, with the tenor Ian Bostridge and the soprano Carolyn Sampson on top form." Sunday Times
"Ian Bostridge adds his plangent imagination to Dryden's vivid conjuring of music as the power that raises chaos into harmony, while Sampson's "What passion cannot music raise and quell" is vividly touching" The Observer
"The work packs a powerful punch in these hands, and nowhere more so than when Bostridge combines with the chorus in the aria hymning "the double, double, double beat/Of the thund'ring drum"." Herald Scotland
Tracks:
George Frideric Handel:Ode for St Cecilia's Day, HWV 76
1. Overture: Larghetto e staccato
2. Overture: Allegro
3. Overture: Minuet
4. Recitative: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
5. Accompagnato: When Nature underneath a heap
6. Chorus: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony
7. Aria: What passion cannot music raise and quell!
8. Aria and Chorus: The trumpet's loud clangour
9. March
10. Aria: The soft complaining flute
11. Aria: Sharp violins proclaim
12. Aria: But oh! what art can teach
13. Aria: Orpheus could lead the savage race
14. Accompagnato: But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder
15. Solo and Chorus: As from the pow'r of sacred lays
Concerto grosso in A minor, Op. 6 No. 4
16. Larghetto affettuoso
17. Allegro
18. Largo e piano
19. Allegro
