Carmen saeculare
Jean-Claude Malgoire, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Verónica Cangemi (Soprano), Nora Gubisch (Mezzo-soprano), Donald Litaker (Tenor), Antonio Abete (Bass)
April 2005, Lugano
- 04:24No. 1 Ouverture
- 01:15No. 2 Prologue 'Odi profanum vulgus' (I hate the profane crowd and keep my distance from it) (Tenor)
Part I. Admonet poëta pueros ac puellas ut carmina bene rcitent (The poet admonishes the boys and girls to sing the songs well)
- 02:02No. 3 'Spiritum Phœbus mihi' (Phoebus gave me the spirit) (Tenor)
- 00:51No. 4 'Deliæ tutela deæ, fugaces' (Protected by the Delian goddess who, fleeing) (Tenor, Chorus)
- 02:29No. 5 'Nupta iam dices' (Once married you will say) (Tenor, Chorus)
Part II. Rogat Apollinem chorus uterque, ut sæculare carmen probet et tueatur (Each chorus asks Apollo to approve and protect the centennial song)
- 05:01No. 6 'Dive, quem proles Niobea magnæ' (God, whose chastisement of proud words) (Chorus)
- 00:58No. 7 'Ceteris maior, tibi miles impar' (Greater than others, but not your equal as a soldier) (Bass)
- 03:57No. 8 'Ille mordaci velut icta ferro' (He, like a pine-tree struck by a biting axe) (Bass, Chorus)
- 04:39No. 9 'Ni tuis flexus Venerisque gratæ' (If, swayed by your words and those of gracious Venus) (Soprano)
- 03:30No. 10 'Doctor argutæ fidicen Thaliæ' (Lyre-player, teacher of clear-voiced Thalia) (Chorus)
Part III. Hortantur se multi Pueri et Puellæ ad celebrandas Apollinis et Dianæ laudes (Many boys and girls urge one another to celebrate the praises of Apollo and Diana)
- 05:14No. 11 'Dianam teneræ dicite virgines' (Tender maidens, sing to Diana) (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano)
- 04:27No. 12 'Vos lætam fluviis et nemorum coma' (Sing to her who rejoices in the rivers and foliage of the groves) (Tenor, Chorus)
- 03:01No. 13 'Hic bellum lacrimosum' (Let him drive tearful war) (Soloists, Chorus)
Part IV. Preces pro imperii et imperatoris incolumitate (Prayers for the safety of the empire and the emperor)
- 02:42No. 14 'Phœbe silvarumque potens Diana' (Phoebus and Diana, powerful over the woods) (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Chorus)
- 03:00No. 15 'Alme Sol, curru nitido diem' (Kind Sun, who on shining chariot) (Bass, Chorus)
- 03:46No. 16 'Rite maturos aperire partus' (You. O Moon, who duly gently protects) (Soprano)
- 02:59No. 17 'Certus undenos decies per annos' (So that surely a cycle of ten times eleven years) (Chorus)
- 03:08No. 18 'Vosque veraces cecinisse, Parcæ' (And you, Fates, who truthfully have prophesied) (Bass)
- 03:11No. 19 'Fertilis frugum pecorisque Tellus' (Let Mother Earth, fertile in crops and cattle) (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Chorus)
- 02:28No. 20 'Condito mitis placidusque telo' (Gentle and friendly, your bow laid aside) (Soloists, Chorus)
- 01:23No. 21 'Roma si vestrum est opus' (If Rome is your work) (Tenor)
- 03:40No. 22 'Di, probos mores docili iuventæ' (Gods grant honest character to youth that learns) (Tenor)
- 03:26No. 23 'Quæque vos bobus veneratur albis' (And when with white oxen he honours you) (Bass, Chorus)
- 00:37No. 24 'Iam mari terraque manus potentis' (Now the Mede fears his hand, powerful by sea and land) (Tenor)
- 01:25No. 25 'Iam Fides et Pax et Honos Pudorque' (Now Faith and Peace and Honour and old-fashioned) (Tenor)
- 02:34No. 26 'Augur et fulgente decorus arcu' (You, Phoebus, prophet decked with shining bow) (Mezzo Soprano)
- 02:20No. 27 'Quæque Aventinum tenet Algidumque' (And Diana, who holds the Aventine and Algidus) (Soloists)
- 01:55No. 28 'Hæc Iovem sentire deosque cunctos' (That Jupiter and all the gods will hear these prayers) (Soloists, Chorus)
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