Handel: Gloria; Dixit Dominus / Kirkby * Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra * Cummings
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-12-15
Music Label: Bis
Soundtracks:
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Gloria in excelsis Deo
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Et in terra pax...
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Laudamus te...
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Gratias agimus tibi...
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Domine Deus...
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Qui tollis...
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Quoniam to solus sanctus...
- Gloria, for soprano & orchestra (discovered in 2001): Cum Sancto Spiritu...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Dixit Dominus Domino Meo...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Virgam virtutis tuce...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Tecum principium...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Juravit Dominus...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Tu es sacerdos...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Dominus a dextris tuis...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: De torrente in via bibet...
- Dixit Dominus, hymn for soloists, chorus & orchestra in G minor, HWV 232: Gloria Patri et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto...
Music reviews of Handel: Gloria; Dixit Dominus / Kirkby * Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra * Cummings
Music Review: A benchmark account of Handel's 'Gloria'
Rating: 4 Stars
Emma Kirby's radiant performance on the premiere recording of Handel's rediscovered 'Gloria' is well worth the entrance price. The Royal Academy's Baroque Orchestra also give a strong performance, albeit one lacking the richer tones of John Eliot Gardiner's period ensemble on the Philips (462 597-2) recording which appeared a couple of months later. By Handel's standards this a fairly straight setting of a traditional text, but all the expected flourishes, trills, sustains and extended runs are there to add the colour we would expect. The outcome is a splendid combination of required simplicity and appropriate elaboration.Gardiner's 'Dixit Dominus' is superior to the well-known archive one on this recording, which comes across a little flat. It would have been good if the Academy could have produced a third Handel work to supplement the 'Gloria' - perhaps a Motet like 'Saeviat tellus inter rigores' or the Psalm 'Nisi Dominus'. Gardiner tags on the Vivaldi 'Gloria' instead. But it is something of a curious afterthought, and given the choice of the two I would definitely plump for this CD if it is the Handel you are after.
A couple of other recordings have become available since this release and the Philips one. The Gottingen Handel Festival Edition is a live recording from their 3 June 2001 gala performance with Dominique Labelle, soprano, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and conductor Nicholas McGegan. And the Baroque Academy of Montreal offer another period instrument rendition on Atma Classique (ACD2 2215), accompanied by the Bach and Vivaldi settings. However, Emma Kirby remains the benchmark.
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Description of Handel: Gloria; Dixit Dominus / Kirkby * Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra * Cummings
All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Handel made the headlines in March 2001, when London's Royal Academy of Music publicized the rediscovery in its own collection--under the musical world's collective nose, as it were--of a previously unknown work by the composer. The Times got so carried away as to call the piece "the new Messiah." Gloria consists of seven movements scored for solo soprano with two violin parts and basso continuo, lasting about 16 minutes, most likely written before the composer was 22 years old. This does not a mighty masterwork make, however pretty the writing or flashy the coloratura. Some of the writing is quite attractive--the jaunty opening movement, the appropriately gentle "Et in terra pax," and the lilting "Gratias agimus" are a few examples. As for the coloratura, each of the fast movements has some; the final movement is full of it--and just listening to Emma Kirkby whiz through those roulades can leave a listener breathless. The Divine Miss Em is in very fine form here, with clear tone, impressive accuracy in leaps and runs, and phrasing as eloquent and musical as any singer's. The Gloria may not be first-rung, or even second-rung, Handel--it lacks a certain spark that even similar works like Saeviat tellus and the Salve Regina have--but it's hard to imagine anyone else making a better case for it.
The world premiere recording of the Gloria was made just several weeks before the release date. In order to hit that deadline, Bis filled out the CD with a 1986 recording of Handel's lively setting of the Psalm Dixit Dominus, also written while the young Handel was in Italy. Any recording featuring the young Anne Sofie von Otter is worth hearing, and soprano Hillevi Martinpelto is a worthy colleague. Perhaps the Stockholm Bach Choir sounds a bit woollier than ideal, and some of conductor Anders Öhrwall's tempos are a tad too moderate for this exuberant Roman music. But this Swedish Dixit Dominus is quite creditable, if not as exciting as those by Andrew Parrott and Marc Minkowski. But then, you're probably not buying this CD for the Dixit Dominus. --Matthew Westphal
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