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G. F. Handel combines a dialogue in his ODE between the alto voice and the trumpet from the orchestra.
In this recording, you can hear the TROMPET 8-foot solo stop of the IBACH organ in Bergen op Zoom.
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (HWV 74) is a secular cantata composed by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Ambrose Philips, of which the first line, "Eternal source of light divine", provides an alternative title for the work. It was probably composed during January 1713 for a performance on 6 February 1713, although there is no record of the performance having actually taken place.
The cantata celebrates Queen Anne's birthday, and the accomplishment of the Treaty of Utrecht (negotiated by the Tory ministry of Anne in 1712) to end the War of the Spanish Succession.
Queen Anne was said by the Duke of Manchester to be " ...too busy to listen to her own band, and had no thought of hearing and paying new players however great their genius or vast their skill."
Nevertheless, and whether or not she ever heard this ode for her birthday, she granted Handel a "pension" (subsidy for living expenses) of two hundred pounds a year, for life.

BACH & HANDEL
The two giants in BAROQUE, J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel. It's a wonder how much difference in the style they both can display. You can almost always hear the difference between the two composers, but in this work, the difference is less significant I think. J. S. Bach could also have composed this work in this way. Although... and here we go again, maybe not....!