St Augustine’s Singers and Players: Dixit Dominus

The St Augustine’s Singers and Players, conducted by Paul Jackson, present two Baroque masterpieces for chorus and instruments.

The concert opens with Francesco Durante’s short and compact Magnificat, one of the most significant settings of the text in cantata form by a composer later described as ‘the greatest harmonist of Italy, indeed of the world’. This is followed by George Frideric Handel’s setting of Dixit Dominus, written when the composer was only twenty-two years old. A thrilling and virtuosic work for five-part chorus, soloists and orchestra, Dixit Dominus bursts with rhythmic and melodic invention and vitality.

Admission to the concert is free, with a retiring collection in aid of church funds.