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Handel: Dixit Dominus
Steffani: Stabat Mater

The Sixteen adds to its stunning Handel collection with a brand new recording of Dixit Dominus set alongside a little know treasure - Agostino Steffani’s Stabat Mater.

Full of virtuosity, vibrant colour and dynamic energy, Handel’s Dixit Dominus captures absolutely the Italian style of the period. Handel’s control of forces is masterly and the range of texture and style is breathtaking. Written during the composer’s time in Italy in the early eighteenth century it is amongst his first autographed works and also one of his finest.

By comparison Agostino Steffani’s little known Stabat Mater was one of his last compositions. Written for the Academy of Vocal Music in London, this work is the most powerful expression of Steffani’s religious fervour and, outside opera, his largest, most varied and most heartfelt composition.

The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
COR16076


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Track Listing
STEFFANI: Stabat Mater
Solo (S) Stabat Mater dolorosa
Soli (SST) and Chorus Cuius animam gementem
Soli (TT) Quis est homo qui non fleret
Chorus Pro peccatis suae gentis
Solo (B) Vidit suum dulcem Natum
Soli (SSTT) and Chorus Eia Mater, fons amoris
Solo (T) and Chorus Fac me vere tecum flere
Soli (TTB) Virgo virginum praeclara
Soli (SST) Fac ut portem Christi mortem
Chorus Fac me plagis vulnerary
Soli (TTB) Inflammatus et accensus
Chorus Quando corpus morietur

HANDEL: Dixit Dominus
Chorus Dixit Dominus
Aria (Alto) Virgam virtutis tuae
Aria (Soprano) Tecum principium in die virtutis
Chorus Iuravit Dominus
Chorus Tu es sacerdos in aeternum
Soli (SSTTB) and Chorus Dominus a dextris tuis
Soli (SSTTB) and Chorus Iudicabit
Soli (SS) and Chorus De torrente in via bibet
Chorus Gloria Patri et Filio