Bart Naessens direction
Écrite en 1739, l'Ode pour la Sainte-Cécile exalte le rôle de la musique dans l'harmonie de l'univers. En tant qu'œuvre majeure du répertoire, quoi de plus symbolique pour inaugurer un festival qui, pendant deux mois, explorera l'histoire de la musique dans toutes ses directions.
Conservatoire royal +
Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 76
Overture: Larghetto e staccato - Allegro - Minuet
Recitative (tenor): From harmony, from heavenly harmony
Chorus: From harmony, from heavenly harmony
Aria (soprano): What passion cannot music raise and quell!
Aria (tenor) and Chorus: The trumpet's loud clangour
March
Aria (soprano): The soft complaining flute
Aria (tenor): Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs
Aria (soprano): But oh! What art can teach
Aria (soprano): Orpheus could lead the savage race
Recitative (soprano): But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher
Grand Chorus (soprano): As from the power of sacred lays
