IDAGIO | Handel: Dixit Dominus - Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus, In furore iustissimae irae 5414939992087

Featuring

David Bates
Helen-Jane Howells
Esther Brazil
Christopher Lowrey
Simon Wall
Thomas Raskin

Lucy Crowe
Anna Dennis
Augusta Hebbert
La Nuova Musica
Antonio Vivaldi
George Frideric Handel

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Compositional Technique

Handel's Dixit Dominus (HWV 232) combines the emerging instrumental concerto style with ecclesiastical tradition by incorporating the plainsong melody of the Fourth Psalm Tone as a cantus firmus.

Performer Biography

La Nuova Musica, a vocal and instrumental ensemble, was founded by director David Bates in 2007 to reinvigorate Renaissance and Baroque music with a new communicative spirit.

Composition History

Handel's Dixit Dominus (HWV 232) was composed in Rome in April 1707, likely for an important church festival at the request of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a significant music patron.

Composition History

One of Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus settings (RV 807, heard on this recording) was discovered in Dresden in 2005, having been misattributed to Baldassare Galuppi, a younger contemporary of Vivaldi.

Compositional Technique

Vivaldi's Dixit Dominus (RV 807) includes a movement, 'De torrente in via bibet', that vividly conveys the gentle lapping of water through a simple string accompaniment.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Handel's choice of G minor for his Dixit Dominus (HWV 232), rather than the more common C or D major, demonstrates his independence and willingness to defy convention.

Historical Context

Psalm 109, Dixit Dominus, was set to music more often than any other psalm because it was the invariable opening psalm for daily Vespers in Roman Catholic liturgy.