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Handel - Chandos Anthems | Hyperion CDA67737

Handel - Chandos Anthems

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67737

Barcode: 0034571177373

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 27th April 2009

Contents

Artists

Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Stephen Layton

Works

Handel, George Frideric

Chandos Anthem no.7: 'My song shall be away', HWV252
Chandos Anthem no.9: 'O praise the Lord with one consent', HWV254
Chandos Anthem no.11: 'Let God arise', HWV256a

Artists

Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor

Stephen Layton

About

This is a welcome addition to the Handel discography. Stephen Layton, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and a stellar group of soloists - in fact, the best in solo Handel singing that this country has to offer - present a disc of three of the Chandos anthems.

Here we have the composer at his most English and most gently appealing. Written for the musical establishment of the first Duke of Chandos, these anthems set texts taken from the Psalms, mainly the old version of the Psalter as preserved in the Book of Common Prayer, but also the metrical versions of Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, first published in 1696.

The anthems have no direct models in English church music, but follow the form used by Handel for his Latin psalm settings, with a mixture of movements for solo voices and choruses. The expressive range of the solos is remarkable, and in the choruses Handel seizes every opportunity to create grand effects with modest means.

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