Baroque Splendour
Baroque Splendour with Whitehall Choir at the Cadogan Hall
Date: Saturday 26th April 2025 7:30pm
Venue: Cadogan Hall, London SW1X
Whitehall Choir and Constanza Chorus, two of London’s most engaging choirs, join together for this baroque extravaganza. Prepare for the roof to be raised by these combined forces in rousing performances of Handel’s Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest and Vivaldi’s setting of Dixit Dominus for double choir and orchestra.
The rhythmic energy and vibrancy of Isabella Leonarda’s short setting of Dixit Dominus is reminiscent of Monteverdi. Born in Italy in 1620, Leonarda was a prolific composer who joined a convent at 16 and remained there for the rest of her life, where it is likely she wrote most of the sacred music for all performances while maintaining her duties as nun and eventually mother superior.
Written on a grand-scale for a large baroque orchestra, chorus and five soloists, Bach’s Magnificat is one of the best loved choral works. Alongside the massed choirs and superb soloists, top period players London Baroque Sinfonia perform this work of splendour, jubilation and joy.
Georg Friedrich Handel – Zadok the Priest
Antonio Vivaldi – Dixit Dominus in due Cori, RV594
Interval
Isabella Leonarda – Dixit Dominus
Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat in D major
Alexandra Kidgell – Soprano
Carris Jones – Alto
Samuel Jenkins – Tenor
Timothy Dickinson – Bass
Joanna Tomlinson – Conductor
Constanza Chorus
Whitehall Choir
London Baroque Sinfonia
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