Elizabeth Cooper (soprano)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Philip Hattey (baritone) Norman Platt (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Ralph Downes (organ)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz)
Conducted by Edmond Appla
Part 1
"Dixit Dominus" (Vulgate, Psalm 109) - Lalande
As a chorister and later as organist at several Parisian churches Lalande had every opportunity of studying current trends in 17th-century diurdi music. Dixit Dominus, with its complex yet effective arrangement of small and large choirs, is typical of his masterly settings of the psalms.