In 1707 Handel wrote music for the celebration of this feast at the church of S Maria di Monte Santo in Rome.
This reconstruction, devised
°y GRAHAM DIXON , uses recently rediscovered Carmelite chant. nandel Dixit Dominus ; Te decus virginem; Laudate pueri; Nisi
Dominus: Haec est regina; oaeviat tellus; Salve regina JILL FELDMAN (soprano)
MIEKE VAN DER SLUIS (soprano) MARGARET CABLE (alto) NEIL JENKINS (tenor)
PETER SAVIDGE (baritone) TAVERNER CHOIR
EUROPEAN BAROQUE ORCHESTRA directed by Andrew PARROTT