PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Handel Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 for Choir & Orchestra

Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 4

Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 7

Brescianello Violin Concerto in C major, BRE3

Photo Credit: Keith Saunders / Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

ARTISTS

Paul Dyer AO Artistic Director, Conductor

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Brandenburg Choir*

*I am excited to be joining the ABO Choir once again for this performance and I will also be the bass soloist in Dixit Dominus.

Handel absorbed Baroque Rome’s dynamism and met minds with its most glamorous musicians. One of these characters, the great violinist Arcangelo Corelli, composed Twelve Concerti Grossi which are today regarded as the earliest and finest examples of the form. Two concertos from the set - both in the triumphant key of D major - will be performed in luminous arrangements for string orchestra, Baroque trumpets and sackbutts.

While Handel was in Rome, opera had been banned by Papal decree. Turning his attention to music for the church, Handel composed one of his most eternal works. The great composer's virtuosic setting of Psalm 110, Dixit Dominus, unites an expanded Australian Brandenburg Orchestra with the full Brandenburg Choir in a dazzling start to the season.