FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £35!

Handel - Chandos Anthems (Anthems for Cannons) (USED) | Alpha ALPHA1153

Handel - Chandos Anthems (Anthems for Cannons) (USED)

£5.95

In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day

Used - Mint

Seal-wrapped: Yes

Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1153

Barcode: 3701624511534

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Year: 2025

This is a used product.
View new for £14.26

Contents

About

In the summer of 1717, after performing his Water Music during a royal cruise on the Thames, Handel began composing for James Brydges (1674-1744), who became the first Duke of Chandos and created the Cannons Concert at his estate in Cannons (near Edgware), with ten instrumentalists and three singers. Handel composed eleven anthems and a Te Deum for him from August 1717 onwards, as well as transposing and revising As pants the hart (HWV251b). O sing unto the Lord a new song (HWV249b) is an adaptation of an anthem written three years earlier for the Chapel Royal. The anthem Have mercy upon me, O God (HWV248) was composed in 1717 and is a paraphrase of the Miserere. The Alleluia of Let God arise (HWV256a) prefigures the famous Hallelujah chorus from Messiah (1741). Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen now revive these four Chandos anthems composed for Cannons with eight singers and eleven excellent instrumentalists.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here