Alas, it’s too late for me at this point to come up with a fresh acknowledgment of St. Cecilia on her feast day, as the holiday may as well have begun. However, you can still celebrate the patron saint of music as you get started on your Thanksgiving preparations with this evergreen 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”
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”
