#choral

#choral

It's 1707 in Italy. Opera is banned, but audiences still crave drama. Enter 22-year-old Handel's Dixit Dominus , a high-voltage choral piece that injects theatrical energy into sacred music. In Baroque Garlands , you'll hear Handel's choral masterpiece paired with Rameau's La Guirlande, a lighter Baroque work of French dance rhythms, operatic arias, and a romance nearly undone by a bewitched garland. Performed on period instruments and in the style of the time, you'll hear the music just as the first audiences would have heard it.