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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
1.
Processional: Batteries de timballes
2:00
Solo: Matthew Bassett timpani
Eternal Source of Light Divine: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74
2.
Arioso. Eternal source of light divine
3:29
Solo:Barry Bauguess trumpet
3.
Air & Chorus. The day that gave great Anna birth
2:41
4.
Air. Let all the winged race with joy
2:43
5.
Air. Let flocks and herds their fear forget
2:13
6.
Duet. Kind health decends on downy wings
4:48
7.
Air & Chorus. The day that gave great Anna birth
1:40
8.
Air & Chorus. United nations shall combine
3:11
Zadok the Priest (Coronation Anthem No.1), HWV 258
9.
Zadok the priest | And all the people rejoic'd
2:35
10.
God save the King!
2:34
11.
Plainchant: Dixit Dominus Domino meo (psalm tone)
1:01
Solo:Scott Mello tenor
Solo: Sandra Simon soprano
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
12.
Chorus. Dixit Dominus Domino meo
6:14
13.
Aria. Virgam virtutis
2:38
14.
Aria. Tecum principium in die virtutis
3:30
15.
Chorus. Juravit Dominus
2:25
16.
Chorus. Tu es sacerdos
1:29
17.
Chorus. Dominus à dextris tuis
6:34
Sandra Simon & Kiera Duffy, sopranos; Meg Bragle, alto; Scott Mello, tenor; José Gotera, bass
18.
Chorus. De torrente in via
3:44
19.
Chorus. Gloria Patri et filio
6:23
BONUS TRACK:
20.
The Lord Shall Reign (from Israel in Egypt, HWV 54)
2:54
67:09
Chamber: Apollo's Fire
Choral: Apollo's Singers
Conductor:Jeanette Sorrell
Solo:Kiera Duffy soprano
Solo: Meg Bragle mezzo-soprano
Solo:Scott Mello tenor (Dixit Dominus)
Recorded in live concerts at:
Ode, Zadok and The Lord Shall Reign recorded 18-21 Oct 2008
Dixit Dominus recorded 2-3 Feb 2007
Notes
Apollo’s Fire with founder/director Jeannette Sorrell has won widespread critical acclaim with their half-dozen releases on AVIE. Most recently they released two adventurous albums that explored the byways of historically informed performance practice: early Americana on Come to the River (AV 2205) and ancient Celtic Christmas music on Sacrum Mysterium (AV 2269). Returning to their baroque roots, they offer a selection of works by Handel that showcases the Apollo’s Fire Chorus. The centrepiece of the album is the grand Dixit Dominus written during the composer’s early days in Rome. In a gesture to Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee year, Sorrell has chosen two works written for the monarch’s forbearers – the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne which celebrated that sovereign’s birthday in 1713, and Zadok the Priest composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727. As a bonus, Sorrell includes "The Lord Shall Reign" from the epic Israel in Egypt.
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The Cleveland-based early-music ensemble Apollo’s Fire are responsible for some of the most enjoyable Vivaldi interpretations I’ve heard, so was intrigued to hear how they treat the more mannered territory traversed by Handel here. The ensemble’s lean forces make for a more flexible ’Zadok the Priest’ (originally written for more than 150 instruments), the Apollo’s singers by no means understating the piece’s majesty, before tackling the complexity of the ’Dixit Dominus’ with aplomb" ***
Andy Gill - The Independent - 27 October 2012
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