Rejoice in the beauty of the Baroque with this collection of magnificent choruses from the great composers of the time: Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Purcell and more.

Performed by renowned vocal ensemble Cantillation with the Sirius Ensemble and the Orchestra of the Antipodes, this disc features some of the best loved choruses of all time including Handel's Hallelujah from Messiah and Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. Also highlighted are choruses from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, Purcell's Fairy Queen and Vivaldi's Magnificat, representing all the splendour and extravagance of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Track Listing

Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freude
Bach: Zion hört die Wächter singen
Bach: Lobet den Herren
Handel: Judas Maccabeus: Mourn ye afflicted children
Handel: Judas Maccabeus: We never will bow down
Purcell: Fairy Queen: Join your warbling voices all
Purcell: Fairy Queen: Hush no more
Purcell: Fairy Queen: Hail great parent
Handel: Semele: Lucky omens bless our rites
Handel: Semele: Now love that everlasting boy
Handel Messiah: And the glory of the lord
Handel Messiah: For unto us a child is born
Handel Messiah: Hallelujah
Handel Messiah: Worthy is the lamb
Handel Messiah: Amen
Handel Messiah: All we, like sheep
Handel Messiah: Yoke is easy
Vivaldi: Magnificat: Et misericordia
Vivaldi: Magnificat: Fecit potentiam
Vivaldi: Magnificat: Deposuit potentes
Vivaldi: Magnificat: Gloria Patri
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo: Lasciate i monti … vieni Imeneo
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo: Vanne Orfeo, felice a pieno
Rameau: Dardanus: Que l'on chante, que l'on s'empresse
Rameau: Dardanus: Paix favorable
Lotti: Crucifixus a 8
Bach: Befiehl du deine wege