To celebrate 25 years of the twinning between East Oxford Community Choir and Ensemble Vocal Interlude from Grenoble, the two choirs are joined by special guests the Saltsjobaden Chamber Choir from Stockholm in a programme of baroque choral music conducted by Dexter Drown.

Georg Frederic Handel wrote his Dixit Dominus in 1707, at the age of twenty-two, while working in Italy. One of his earliest choral works, it is a dramatic setting of Psalm 110.

A few years later, probably in 1715, Antonio Vivaldi, musical director at the Ospidale della Pieta in Venice, an orphanage for girls, composed his Gloria: as it was to be performed by the girls, all the vocal solos are for female voices. Forgotten for two hundred years after Vivaldi's death, the original version was not performed again until 1957, and is now one of Vivaldi's most popular choral works.

Handel composed the coronation anthem Zadok the Priest in 1727 for the coronation of George II in Westminster Abbey. It has been performed during the anointing of the monarch at the coronation service of every British monarch since.

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