November 22 is St. Cecilia’s Day. Celebrate the patron saint of music with a playlist of Cecilia inspirations. All hail!
William Boyce, “Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day” (overture also published as Boyce’s Symphony No. 5)
Benjamin Britten, “Hymn to St. Cecilia” (Britten was born on this date)
Ernest Chausson, “La légende de Sainte Cécile”
Norman Dello Joio, “To Saint Cecilia”
Gerald Finzi, “For St. Cecilia”
Charles Gounod, “St. Cecilia Mass”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwUhEgJllzk
George Frideric Handel, “Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day”
Franz Joseph Haydn, “Missa Sanctae Caecilia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhA7LEd56ts
Herbert Howells, “A Hymn for St. Cecilia” (text by Ursula Vaughan Williams)
Franz Liszt, “Hymn to St. Cecilia”
Arvo Pärt, “Cecilia, vergine romana”
Henry Purcell, “Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day (Hail! Bright Cecilia)”
Joaquin Rodrigo, “El Album de Cecilia” (written for the composer’s daughter; Rodrigo was born on this date)
Alessandro Scarlatti, “St. Cecilia Mass”
