Baroque Music Festival
Festival Finale: St. Cecilia’s Day!
A grand choral Finale celebrating music itself—the power of harmony and more. With international in-demand tenor Nicholas Phan and “luminous” soprano soloist Hannah De Priest, this year’s Festival closer is not to be missed.
Musicians
Hannah De Priest, soprano
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Kyle Tingzon, countertenor (Chandos Anthem)
Festival Orchestra & Chorus, directed by Elizabeth Blumenstock
Program
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Op. 3, No. 5, HWV 316
Handel
O Come, Let Us Sing “Chandos” Anthem No. 8, HWV 253
~intermission~
Handel
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76
Overture
Recitativo (tenor): From harmony, from heavenly harmony
Chorus: From harmony, from heavenly harmony
Aria (soprano): What passion cannot music raise and quell! (Eva Lymenstull, cello)
Aria (tenor) and Chorus: The trumpet’s loud clangour (Kathryn Adduci & Melissa Rodgers, trumpets)
March
Aria (soprano): The soft complaining flute (Stephen Schultz, flute)
Aria (tenor): Sharp violins proclaim their jealous pangs
Aria (soprano): But oh! What art can teach (Ian Pritchard, chamber organ)
Aria (soprano): Orpheus could lead the savage race
Recitative (soprano): But bright Cecilia raised the wonder higher
Grand Chorus with soprano: As from the power of sacred lays
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