91Èȱ¬

From the 91Èȱ¬ Proms 2021: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists in music by Bach and Handel, including Dixit Dominus.

Presented by Ian Skelly from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Handel: Cantata 'Donna, che in ciel'
J S Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4
Handel: Dixit Dominus

Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir
Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Sir John Eliot Gardiner makes his 60th Proms appearance directing his own Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Handel’s vividly theatrical Dixit Dominus – a concerto for choir that blazes with virtuosity and colour. It’s paired with Bach’s Easter cantata Christ lag in Todes Banden – a fiery, dramatic setting of Luther’s popular hymn. Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg is the soloist in the young Handel’s cantata of praise to the Virgin Mary, Donna, che in ciel, containing music the composer later borrowed for his opera Agrippina.