Paul Dyer laid on a feast of Baroque hits to launch the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra’s new season a few weeks back, and for its second tour he continues in the same vein, only this time the Artistic Director has added the excellent 18-voice choir as an enticing ingredient.

The first half was all JS Bach, featuring excerpts from three of his most popular cantatas. The evening then built to two works that encapsulate the “choral splendour” of the concert’s tagline, two of GF Handel’s Coronation Anthems, Zadok the Priest and The King shall rejoice.

The instrumental element was equally splendid with a nicely nuanced performance of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto featuring two well-matched and complementary soloists in Concertmaster Shaun-Lee Chen and Principal Second Baroque Violin Ben Dollman.

Shaun-Lee Chen and Ben Dollman – Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Choral Splendour. Photo © Keith Saunders

Another highlight was Heidi Jones’s handling of the organ solo in the Sinfonia from the cantata Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, which is probably better known as the Prelude to the Violin Partita No. 3 in E major. This...