Thomas Hengelbrock Handel: Dixit Dominus; Caldara: Mussa Dolorosa

Thomas Hengelbrock, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemblem - Handel: Dixit Dominus; Caldara: Missa Dolorosa (2009)

Thomas Hengelbrock, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemblem - Handel: Dixit Dominus; Caldara: Missa Dolorosa (2009)
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Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697568682 | Recorded: 2003

One of Handel’s more epic Italianate psalm-cantatas, Dixit Dominus (1707) was composed for the name day of the Spanish King Felipe V, and it has a strongly Venetian character in its dispersion of voices and instrumental effects. Highly chromatic and vocally acrobatic, the writing for high sopranos is in bravura style, especially in the wild opening to Dominus a dextris tuis, in which singers extol The Lord for the ubiquity of His wrath.