Adelaide Baroque
& ADELAIDE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
ADELAIDE BAROQUE
Season 2024
Orchestral Series 4
Bach And Handel At The Cathedral
Saturday November 16th, 7.30 pm
Featuring
Jessica Dean | soprano
Kyle Stegall | tenor
Leanne Sullivan | baroque trumpet
St Peter’s Cathedral Choir I Anthony Hunt
Adelaide Baroque Orchestra led by Rachael Beesley
What greater way to celebrate the joy of music than with two of the most popular masterworks from two of the greatest of Baroque composers:
Handel’s “Ode for St Cecilia’s Day”, HWV 76 and Bach’s Cantata “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen”, BWV 51 in the glorious acoustics of St Peter’s Cathedral.
St Cecilia was born in 180 AD. and is known as the patron saint of music and musicians, with her Feast Day commemorating her life and death on 22 November. Handel’s Ode takes the poem of John Dryden of 1687 and sets it in exuberant and joyful creativity.
Adelaide Baroque are delighted to announce one additional series of concerts right before Christmas for the St Peter’s Cathedral Music Foundation.
After the sold-out success of Handel’s Messiah last year, we team up again with the St Peter’s Cathedral Consort to present one of Handel’s other great choral masterpieces – the virtuosic Dixit Dominus – alongside Handel’s sublime antiphon “Salve Regina”, sung by Jessica Dean.
To complete the program with a true Christmas flavour, the Adelaide Baroque Orchestra and St Peter’s Cathedral Consort sing the Charpentier Messe de Minuit (Midnight Mass) – a sparkling, joyful work filled with dancing and colour.
Adelaide Baroque Orchestra
St Peter’s Cathedral Consort
Anthony Hunt – Conductor
Jessica Dean – Soprano
