Works by Baroque giants Handel, Vivaldi

For its spring concert program, the Crescendo Chorus, soloists and its Period Instrument Orchestra will present a Baroque Oratorio Concert featuring “Dixit Dominus,” a profound message of the triumph of good over evil. The settings are those of George Frideric Handel and Antonio Vivaldi, two of the Baroque era’s most famous and beloved composers.

The concerts will take place May 5 at 6 p.m. at Saint James Place, Great Barrington, Mass., and May 6 at 4 p.m. at Trinity Church Lime Rock, Lakeville. Tickets are $35 for general admission, $60 premium; $10 students under 18 years old.

Handel was only 20 years old in 1707 when he composed the “Dixit Dominus HWV 232.” Vivaldi’s “Dixit Dominus RV 807” for four-voice chorus, soloists and chamber orchestra was re-discovered in 2005 having been for two centuries wrongly attributed to the successful operatic composer Baldassare Galuppi.

Performers for these concerts are the Crescendo Chorus and the Period Instrument Orchestra with strings and woodwinds as well as natural trumpet player Chris Belluscio from Boston. The vocal soloists are sopranos Michele Kennedy, Jordan Rose Lee and Jennifer Tyo, tenor David Vanderwal, bass baritone Enrico Lagasca, and the internationally-acclaimed countertenor Nicholas Tamagna. Christine Gevert, Crescendo’s founding artistic director, will conduct.

For more information contact crescendo@worldclassmusic.org or 860-4354866

Contributed photo The Crescendo Chorus, soloists and its Period Instrument Orchestra will present a Baroque Oratorio Concert featuring “Dixit Dominus.”