Bach - Magnificat / Handel - Dixit Dominus

Music : Classical : Lossless Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Magnificat en ré majeur, BWV 243 Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 APE + cue + covers Natalie Dessay, soprano Karine Deshayes, soprano Philippe Jaroussky, Contreténor Toby Spence, ténor Laurent Naouri, baryton Le Concert D`Astrée Direction Emmanuelle Haim 1 Bach - Magnificat : Magnificat anima mea Dominum 2 Bach - Magnificat : Et exsultavit spiritus meus 3 Bach - Magnificat : Qui respexit 4 Bach - Magnificat : Omnes generationes 5 Bach - Magnificat : Quia fecit mihi magna 6 Bach - Magnificat : Et misericordia 7 Bach - Magnificat : Fecit potentiam 8 Bach - Magnificat : Deposuit potentes 9 Bach - Magnificat : Esurientes implevit bonis 10 Bach - Magnificat : Suscepit Israel 11 Bach - Magnificat : Sicut locutus est 12 Bach - Magnificat : Gloria Patri 13 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Dixit Dominus meo 14 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Virgam virtutis tuae 15 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Tecum principium 16 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Juravit Dominus 17 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Tu es sacerdos 18 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Dominus a dextris tuis 19 Handel - Dixit Dominus : De torrente in via bibet 20 Handel - Dixit Dominus : Gloria Patri Enjoy and Seed!!

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kelt65 (2012-12-27)

Not sure I've ever heard a worse rendering of the Magnificat ...

kelt65 (2012-12-28)

Well, I suppose that warrants an explanation - the group is virtuosic, the playing is excellent and so are the singers. But the choral parts are all sung very staccato and it just sounds horrible, not to mention it's far, far faster than you'll hear anywhere else. It's really tastelessly fast. The Dixit is OK but that's just something Handel wrote as a teenager in Italy, not really that great of a piece.