Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell
Description
Apollo's Fire under founder-director Jeannette Sorrell showcases it chorus in a selection of works by Handel, including Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, and Zadok the Priest.
Apollo's Fire with founder/director Jeannette Sorrell has won widespread critical acclaim with their half-dozen releases on AVIE. Most recently they released two adventurous albums that explored the byways of historically informed performance practice: early Americana on Come to the River and ancient Celtic Christmas music on Sacrum Mysterium. Returning to their baroque roots, they offer a selection of works by Handel that showcases the Apollo's Fire Chorus. The centrepiece of the album is the grand Dixit Dominus written during the composer's early days in Rome. In a gesture to Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee year, Sorrell has chosen two works written for the monarch's forbearers - the Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne which celebrated that sovereign's birthday in 1713, and Zadok the Priest composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727. As a bonus, Sorrell includes "The Lord Shall Reign" from the epic Israel in Egypt.
Critical acclaim: "This swaggering version...more than holds its own against the competition." - The Sunday Times (on Brandenburg Concertos)
"The playing the most high spirited I've ever heard" (on Monteverdi Vespers) - MusicWeb International
Personnel: Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor)
Tracklisting
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Donald Berman
Lauren Scott
East of the River
Sebastian Bohren, Sergei Bolkhovets, Munchener Kammerorchester
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan
Yoshika Masuda, HyeJin Kim
Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo's Fire, Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo's Fire; Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo's Fire / Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo's Fire & Jeannette Sorrell
