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A Scarlatti / Handel - Dixit Dominus | Avie AV2274

A Scarlatti / Handel - Dixit Dominus

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Label: Avie

Cat No: AV2274

Barcode: 0822252227420

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 13th May 2013

Contents

Artists

Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano)
Sally Bruce-Payne (mezzo-soprano)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
Matthew Brook (bass-baritone)
Choir of the Queen’s College, Oxford
Brook Street Band

Conductor

Owen Rees

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Dixit Dominus, HWV232

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Concerto Grosso no.4 in G minor
Dixit Dominus

Artists

Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano)
Sally Bruce-Payne (mezzo-soprano)
Guy Cutting (tenor)
Matthew Brook (bass-baritone)
Choir of the Queen’s College, Oxford
Brook Street Band

Conductor

Owen Rees

About

The Brook Street Band join forces with the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford, and their director Owen Rees, for the first ever pairing on disc of the two settings of the Dixit Dominus by Alessandro Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel.

Both works date from early 18th century Rome, Handel’s within a year of his arriving in the musical capital, and possibly influenced by Scarlatti's work, though the date of the elder Italian’s composition is not precisely known. Indeed, it has been suggested that the 22-year-old Lutheran was attempting to outdo Scarlatti with his masterly grasp of large-scale sacred music for the Roman rite.

In between these two grand Vespers, the Brook Street Band serve up a palette-cleanser of an instrumental concerto in G minor by Scarlatti.

On this recording the massed forces are joined by five of Britain’s brightest young singers: soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, mezzo-sopranos Esther Brazil and Sally Bruce-Payne, tenor Guy Cutting, and bass-baritone Matthew Brook.

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