GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne. Dixit Dominus
Andreas Scholl, Hélène Guilmette, Andreas Wolf, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
0h56
1 CD
HMC902041
Apple Music
Composed to celebrate the birthday of Queen Anne of England, this Ode was subtitled ‘Ode for the Peace’ in reference to the Treaty of Utrecht which the monarch was about to sign, marking the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. Six years earlier, the twenty-two-year-old composer exploited in his sacred music what he had just learnt from Italian opera: the result was the powerful, intensely passionate Dixit Dominus.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL [1685-1759] Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne HMV 74 · 1. Solo "Eternal source of light divine" (3'01) · 2. Solo e Coro "The day that gave great Anna birth" (2'37) · 3. Solo "Let all the winged race with joy" (2'36) · 4. Soli e Coro "Let flocks and herds their fear forget" (2'29) · 5. Duetto e Coro "Let rolling streams their gladness show" (2'47) · 6. Duetto "Kind health descends on downy wings" (4'58) · 7. Duetto e Coro "The day that gave great Anna birth" (1'45) · 8. Solo e Coro "Let envy then conceal her head" (1'57) · 9. Solo e Coro "United nations shall combine" (2'59) Dixit Dominus HWV 232 · 1. Coro "Dixit Dominus" (5'11) · 2. Aria "Virgam virtutis tuae" (3'10) · 3. Aria "Tecum principium in die virtutis" (3'05) · 4. Coro "Juravit Dominus" (2'17) · 5. Coro "Tu es sacerdos in aeternum" (1'35) · 6. Soli e Coro "Dominus a dextris tuis" (6'18) · 7. Soli e Coro "De torrente in via bibet" (3'32) · 8. Coro "Gloria Patri, et Filio" (5'50)
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