These thrilling Mozart arrangements of Handel’s beloved works are sure to satisfy music lovers everywhere. With all of the texture and brilliance of Mozart’s orchestrations combined with Handel’s originality, these traditional Cecilian odes explore joy, chaos, despair, and praise as they traverse the heights and depths of musical emotion. Directed by Christopher Hogwood, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus bring these classics back to a modern audience with the professional and intimate sound for which they have become famous.

Disc One:

Alexander's Feast, K591 (Part One)

1. Overture
   
2. "Twas at the royal feast..."
   
3. "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (A)
   
4. "Happy, happy, happy pair!" (B)
   
5. "Timotheus plac'd on high"
   
6. "The song began from Jove"
   
7. "The list'ning crowd admire the lofty sound!"
   
8. "Wish ravish'd ears"
   
9. "The praise of Bacchus..."
   
10. "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (A)
    
11. "Bacchus, ever fair and young" (B)
    
12. "Sooth'd with the sound..."
    
13. "He chose a mournful Muse"
    
14. "He sung Darius great and good"
    
15. "With downcast looks the joyless victor sate"
    
16. "Behold Darius, great and good"
    
17. "The mighty master smil'd to see"
    
18. "Softly sweet, in Lydian measures"
    
19. "War, he sung, is toil and trouble"
    
20. "The many rend the skies, with loud applause"
    
21. "The Prince, unable to conceal his pain"
    
22. "The many rend the skies..."
    

Disc Two:

Alexander's Feast, K591 (Part Two)

1. "Now strike the golden lyre again!"
   
2. "Break his hands..."
   
3. "Hark, hark! the horrid sound"
   
4. "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries"
   
5. "Behold a ghastly band"
   
6. "Revenge, revenge..."
   
7. "Give the vengeance due"
   
8. "The Princes applaud with a furious joy"
   
9. "Thaïs led the way"
   
10. "The Princes applaud..."
    
11. "Thus long ago"
    
12. "At last divine Cecilia came"
    
13. "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (A)
    
14. "Let old Timotheus yield the prize" (B)
    

Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, K592

15. Overture and Minuet
    
16. "From harmony..."
    
17. "When nature underneath a heap"
    
18. "From harmony, from heav'nly Harmony"
    
19. "What passion cannot Music raise and quell!"
    
20. "The trumpet's lound clangor" (A)
    
21. "The trumpet's lound clangor" (B)
    
22. March
    
23. "The soft complaining Flute..."
    
24. "Sharp Violins proclaim their jealous pangs"
    
25. "But oh! what art can teach"
    
26. "Orpheus could lead the savage race"
    
27. "But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r"
    
28. "As from the pow'r of sacred lays"
    
29. "The dead shall live, the living die"