Details
St Martin-in-the-Fields
Trafalgar Square
Westminster
London
WC2N 4JJ
England
Programme
Jan Dismas Zelenka – Dixit Dominus, ZWV 68
Antonio Lotti – Credo in F
Johann Sebastian Bach – Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe, BWV 156: Sinfonia
Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (motet), BWV 230
Johann Sebastian Bach – Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150
George Frideric Handel – Chandos Anthem no.11, HWV 256a: 'Let God Arise'
Performers
Tom Bullard – Conductor
Richard Pearce – organ
Nonsuch Singers
Nonsuch Baroque Players
Programme Note
No programme of music from the high baroque would be complete without contributions from the master, JS Bach: the exuberant four-part motet Lobet den Herren; the contemplative, lyrical sinfonia that begins Cantata No. 156, Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe; and, last but not least, Cantata No 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, with its melancholy opening sinfonia and its concluding mighty choral chaconne. Alongside these great but rather neglected pieces we also present a Dixit Dominus by Bach’s contemporary Zelenka, a Bohemian-born composer who was educated in Prague and Vienna before settling in Dresden, and the Credo in F by Lotti, the work from which comes his most famous and rightly celebrated piece, the Crucifixus for eight-part choir. Handel’s five movement Let God Arise, the eleventh of his so-called Chandos Anthems, concludes our programme. It was composed in 1717/18 for James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon (who became the First Duke of Chandos in 1719) and for whom Handel was at the time serving as composer in residence at Brydges’ country seat, Cannons in Middlesex. The chapel at Cannons is still standing.