The best version of Handel's Dixit Dominus on youtube

[sttar1982]

amazing

[stigekalder]

Also agree that this is the supreme recording of Dixit Dominus - at least within the observable universe ;.)

[221holden]

Very well performed!

[Moeowsandy]

How beautiful!



[TheSosoclacla]

Trop bien :) les voix sont pas tip top mais bon ...

[danbcarson]

Although I just checked out this recording on iTunes and the quality is much better there.

[danbcarson]

I love Hengelbrock's version. The orchestra plays with such fire! And I enjoy the faster tempo. But this version is also wonderful. I really like the tenors in this one.

[limerickguy123]

I prefer Hengelbrock and his Balthasar Neumann Choir

[polyphoniac]

Rushed and superficial.

[Alecs1950]

This music is new for me.Awesome!

[TheFrancescaViolin]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

[slancio15]

Great recording! There is a new recording out (can't remember the group and I'm trying to find it) with a Baroque drum. Also, in the Con Quasabit it goes completely quiet. So amazing!

I hate Gardiner's version, sadly. This is great thought, thanks!

[cause4fear]

all those who feel this is fast can use vlc player and playback at .85x speed..it sounds great :-)

[ruggyone]

Are you sure tris is the bes t one?

[1choyero]

tempo a bit rushed ,but wonderful !

[1choyero]

Ive never heard it before,I feel truly grateful!!!!!

[jeffamarie]

8 people wouldn't know the Lord was speaking to them if a guy with a 'Hello My Name is: Lord' button was in the room actually talking to them. lol

[100lec]

Why SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAST?!

Usain Bolt conducted?

[FatFocker02]

for @100lec : its not fast:) We recorded it faster:) It sounds really better with speed:) But the chior here is really the BEST.

[theincredablehunk]

Doesn't get better than this....EPIC :-)

[s99jonte]

A tad too fast?

[1cheshirecat]

to the nutjobs who knock this version...don't you think Andrew Parrot might know just a little of what he's doing?!?@!£??

[chessmanjk]

8 people who watched this video are stupid. Great job, currently my favorite recording on youtube.

[Hedjira]

For me, the best is Dixit Dominus with the King's College Choir, English Chamber Orchestra & Stephen Cleobury.

[Shambalaism]

I agree, this is my favorite version! Can't get enough of it on my iPod! Really happy to find it on youtube! Thanks for posting!

[bersa888]

HAHAHA!! I like your title... what makes this one a great recording is the rhythmic propulsion Parrot gives to the piece...

[firmata77]

Perfect tempo! This vesper psalm portrays the power of God as a ruler, and thus, the tempo is justified as the excitement and intensity unfold to render a musical masterpiece...excellent.

[paulostroff99]

Lovely performance!

[CanadaPisces]

An excellent choral presentation! Thank you Elias for the posting!

[BelytaRuiva]

This is my favorite!

[artissimo777]

Clearly the best version of the piece I have ever heard, love how treats the orchestra and choir together, beautiful polyphonic balance, specially between 1st and 2d violins. Tempo is by no means too fast, this is a work of a young man full of vigor, on a path to show the World what he can, especially as the italians for whom he wrote it were famous for having the best choirs and musicians available at the time. Too bad, extemporations which they were famous for, it is quite a lost art nowdays.

[MirrPL]

Yup, just a tiny bit too fast.

[marcelloprego]

it's very agressive.... too fast...

[gamlovesjohnnydepp3]

Sublime :)

[Requiem77777]

It is a very good version but the contrapunctus parts aren't quite well exposed as I heard it in a previous version...

[khykhy]

I agree with you. This is a very good recording. I would love a little more lean into the dissonance ..but this is very well done

[Toribus]

The introit chant from Midnight Mass (Christmas) is better, but this is still excellent.

[bryngOneOn]

the britney spears of his day

[Jaimejimmyjim]

What a wonderful rendition of Handel's Dixit Dominus, as a good German borne Handel has that seriousness in his compositions with some english and italian influence that makes him so unique to listen. Love his works, well done!!!

[callimacos]

I think that the ''Dixit Dominus'' is the most italian work of Handel,a great one of course,that's Handel :)

[Dramapix]

I'm eccstatic. Seriously, this is a beautiful choir!!

I'm moved....

[Ruffiello]

Has anyone heard the recording by the Philadelphia Singers and Andrew Korn?  That is my favorite version because the choral and solo voices are fully vibrant.

[dolofonos]

As for myself, I care little for the voices and the tempo is fast such so that I cannot begin to comprehend the music. So far the best _I've_ encountered is the recording by Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra.

[SantoriniEpona]

This is the recording from the 100 Best Baroque album set. Definitely one of the very best renditions of this piece that I have heard.

[sebastian122]

I could not agree more! What a delight it is.

[parkourjordz]

I agree.. I have that album..

[suffiice]

The one by Minowski is the best

[robsilvaalvarez]

yes!, this choir is one of the best I've heard in this piece... Thnx :P

[hildigunnurr]

oh, this is my favourite by far, too :D

[Ethratian]

I've listened to some recordings of Händel's Dixit Dominus now and I like this recording very much but I prefer the one with Dessay, Naouri...

Although it's audio quality is very bad in my opinion there's much more power than in other versions.

[elias12186]

I don't like the blend of voices in that one. In this one the voices blend so beautifully. Plus Natalie Dessay just needs to shut the **** up!

[1y]

@elias12186

To shut the what up ? What a smart comment ;-)

[tetrazzini]

@elias12186 so true.... I really like this version by the way

[bf2019]

@elias12186 There is another good Dixit Dominus of recent Vintage 2011: French no less, and quite entertaining: /watch?v=o0_c8Wl5L5M&feature=r­elated yes right here on YouTube...hehe....this french version is not quite as dynamic as this Parrot/Taverner but it is quite sonorous, and has a lot of warmth...better???mmm Also always thanks for uploading vivaldi/Veronica Cangemi/Inguistti Oroari a gem....

[yugiohabridged432]

@Ethratian Since you don't know the difference between it's and its, I wonder if you know the difference in anything else.

[Ethratian]

@yugiohabridged432

„Errare humanum est" as you should know. Please forgive my mistake oh great yugiohabridged432!

[treble32]

Could you please tell me name of the CD? Label? It's fantastic - thank you!

[elias12186]

Andrew Parrot

Taverner Choire & Players

[bf2019]

@elias12186 Yes and here is another one which is almost as articulate as this, in some spots definitely better, and in others also definitely not...so??/ hehe...more to listen to.... /watch?v=wBfnkP2puU8&feature=r­elated

The Parrot/Taverner is hard to beat, as it has both articulation and Grandeur....

[elias12186]

Dixit Dixit! Dixit dominus domino meo!

[Ylvaon]

@elias12186 Dixit!... Dixit!... :)

[codonauta]

The musicians of the my recording are

Dixit Dominus - - Dixit Dominus George Frideric Handel - HWV 232

Felicity Palmer, Margareth Marshall,

- sopranos

Charles Brett, John Angelo Messana counter-tenors

Richard Morton, Alastair Thompson - tenors

David Wilson-Johnson, Bass

Monteverdi Choir

Monteverdi Orquestra

John Eliot Gardiner

[codonauta]

I put there as video response the Gardiner's version of Dixit Dominus, to compare.

My video doesn't have the entire movement. The mp3 is amputed in its final. I never got the entire recording of that.

[elias12186]

Well I do have it ;) I can up it also (i upped vivaldi's gloria with gardiner)

[codonauta]

Do you do have? And it is exactly the same Gardiner's recording? If you upload it in a video, I can do the download, and complete the entire Dixits Dominus, finally.

But i just need the first track, or movement, or part of the composition. Not all parts. The remainders parts I have.

I will appreciate very much for that.

It was beeing hard to find that Gardiner's Dixit

[codonauta]

Gardiner has a very good version of that part too. A little slower than that.

[elias12186]

Andrew Parrot

Taverner Choire & Players