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Handel, Dixit Dominus
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Handel: Dixit Dominus | Concert
Prestige VIP – Best seats in the house, including a glass of champagne and the show program.
Prestige – Includes a complimentary glass of champagne.
Program and cast
Tereza Zimková, Pavla Radostová, Sopranos
Aneta Petrasová, Alto
Ondřej Holub, Tenor
Tomáš Šelc, Tadeáš Hoza, Basses
Collegium Vocale 1704
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks, Conductor
Programme
Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
Dixit Dominus
First part : 40 minutes
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Missa Circumcisionis, ZWV 11
Kyrie
1. Kyrie eleison – Christe eleison – Kyrie eleison
Gloria
2. Gloria in excelsis Deo
3. Qui tollis peccata mundi
4. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patri
5. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
6. Cum Sancto Spiritu
Credo
7. Credo in unum Deum
8. Et incarnates est
9. Et resurrexit
10. Et vitam venture saeculi
Sanctus
11. Sanctus
Benedictus
12. Benedictus
13. Osanna in excelsis
Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei I
15. Agnus Dei II
16. Agnus Dei III
17. Dona nobis pacem
Intermission
Second part : 35 minutes
Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Dixit Dominus
Virgam virtutis
Tecum principium
Juravit Dominus
Tu es sacerdos
Dominus a dextris tuis
Judicabit in nationibus
De torrente in via bibet
Gloria Patri
Royal Chapel of Versailles
The Royal Chapel was finished in 1710 at the end of Louis XIV’s reign. Jules Hardouin-Mansart proposed the plan to the King in 1669. The First Architect died in 1708 without seeing the end of the works which were taken over by his brother-in-law Robert De Cotte. The reigning monarch only came for major religious festivals where he received communion, for ceremonies of the Order of Saint-Esprit, for the baptisms and weddings of the royal children celebrated from 1710 to 1789. This exceptional palatine chapel was also used for a wide range of religious ceremonies, including the marriage of Archduchess Marie-Antoinette with the future Louis XVI.
Above the altar, around the organ by Clicquot decorated with a fine relief of King David, played by great masters like François Couperin, the Chapel’s music, famous all over Europe, sung motets everyday during all religious services. Today Handel’s Dixit Dominus or Messiah, Bach’s Oratorios, Magnificat, Cantatas or Passions, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater or Charpentier’s Te Deum ring out in this majestic architecture.
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