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Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2021

Live at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in music by Bach and Handel, including Dixit Dominus.

Live at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in music by Bach and Handel, including Dixit Dominus.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Handel: Cantata 'Donna, che in ciel'
J S Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4

c. 8.25pm
Interval
Guest Suzanne Aspden discusses Handel's time in Italy as a young composer and how it shaped his work.

c. 8.45pm
Handel: Dixit Dominus

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel’s vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus – a concerto for choir that blazes with virtuosity and colour. It’s paired with Bach’s Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden – a fiery, dramatic setting of Luther’s popular hymn. Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg is the soloist in the young Handel’s cantata of praise to the Virgin Mary, Donna, che in ciel, containing music the composer later borrowed for his opera Agrippina.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Wed 1 Sep 2021 19:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Donna, che in ciel

    Performer: Ann Hallenberg. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christ lag in Todes Banden

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Su le sponde del Tebro: VI. Aria 'Dite almeno, astri crudeli'

    Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in D major Op.3`2

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • Arcangelo Corelli: Opus 1 and 3 - Church Sonatas.
    • Linn Records.

  • Cristoforo Caresana

    Dixit Dominus: I. Dixit Dominus

    Choir: La Cappella de' Turchini. Conductor: Antonio Florio.
    • Eloquentia.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Dixit Dominus

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    3 Shanties, Op 4

    Ensemble: East Winds Ensemble.
    • Arnold: Wind Chamber Music: East Winds.
    • Naxos.
    • 28.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Brass Quintet No 1, Op 73

    Ensemble: Stockholm Chamber Brass.
    • BIS.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Sep 2021 19:30
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