Handel - Chandos Anthems, Volume 1, Nos 1,2 & 3 (1994)
Handel - Chandos Anthems, Volume 1, Nos 1,2 & 3 (1994)
The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
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Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0503 | Time: 01:01:10
The Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers
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Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0503 | Time: 01:01:10
This series of eleven church anthems is a sterling example of doing more with less. Though their format is multiple movements for soloists and chorus and inviting of grand treatment, Handel had available only a couple of oboes and a small string band and choir (with no violas or altos for nos. 1-6). Yet each one of these anthems is a gem. Handel's music captures well the changing moods of the Psalm texts–from somber penitence to serene bliss to infectious joy to the raging of storms and seas. Though Bowman's arias lie uncomfortably low for him, he and George do fine work; Lynne Dawson, Patrizia Kwella, and Ian Partridge are delightful. Harry Christophers leads his choir and orchestra in subtly inflected and beautifully paced performances.Review by Matthew Westphal, Amazon.com
The felicity with which George Frideric Handel was able to compose in practically every genre never ceases to amaze me. After only five years (or, in at least one case, considerably less) in England, he was able to write some of the most delicious Anglican anthems on English psalm texts, works which can be considered as precursors of his later English oratorios and which demonstrate with wonderful clarity how the opera-composer Handel turned his expressive skills to the words of Scripture with wonderful effect. Harry Christophers turned to the so-called Chandos Anthems in 1987 when he recorded the first three anthems for the Chandos label (nomen es omen) in a production which can be considered a milestone in the discovery of Handel’s English-language works and which, some 17 years later, still meets all the criteria of a successful CD: brilliant, gloriously-captured soloists (among whom Lynne Dawson is rapturously outstanding, although Ian Partridge is not far behind), a superb twelve-voice choir with mature adult voices (Handel’s patron, the Duke of Chandos, had no alto voices available to him at the time), an original-instrument orchestra that in view of its small size and lack of violas does, within these limits, a grand job – and, of course, Chandos’s superb recorded sound, which enables one to hear every detail while maintaining the acoustic of the original recording venue. I found that listening via headphones was eminently satisfying, while it was, in particular, the choir that came over brilliantly via loudspeakers.
This is not the place to describe the music in detail; let it be said that it would be a waste of good music not to follow the text closely while listening, because Handel had a tremendous gift of imitating both nature and emotion while also maintaining suspense. Harry Christophers appears to have mastered these anthems in such a way that one can never tire of hearing them. Personally, they made me long for modern church music that takes the Word of God equally seriously and at the same time is able to bring over the spirit of faith and enthusiasm that Handel’s style exudes.Review by Leslie Richford, Amazon.com
Handel - Chandos Anthems, Volume 1, Nos 1,2 & 3 (1994)
Handel - Chandos Anthems, Volume 1, Nos 1,2 & 3 (1994)
Performers:
Lynne Dawson - soprano
Ian Partridge - tenor
Michael George - bass
The Sixteen
The Sixteen Orchestra
Harry Christophers
Recorded in:
St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead, London 30 November-2 December 1987
Tracklist:
Anthem 1 - O be Joyful in the Lord
01. 1. Sonata (02:11)
02. 2. O be joyful in the Lord (01:59)
03. 3. Serve the Lord with gladness (02:12)
04. 4. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God (02:37)
05. 5. O go your way into his gates (03:12)
06. 6. For the Lord is gracious (02:43)
07. 7. Glory be to the Father (01:34)
08. 8. As it was in the beginning (03:12)
Anthem 2 - In the Lord put I my Trust
09. 1. Sonata (03:54)
10. 2. In the Lord I put my trust! (04:06)
11. 3. God is a constant sure defence (02:34)
12. 4. Behold! The wicked bend their bow (02:44)
13. 5. But God, who hears the suff'ring pow'r (02:22)
14. 6. Snares, fire and brimstone (01:35)
15. 7. The righteous Lord (02:05)
16. 8. Then shall my song (02:20)
Anthem 3 - Have Mercy upon me
17. 1. Sonata (03:35)
18. 2. Have mercy upon me, O God (03:58)
19. 3. Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness (02:56)
20. 4. For I acknowledge my fault (00:43)
21. 5. Against thee only have I sinned (01:35)
22. 6. Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness (02:16)
23. 7. Make me a clean heart, O God (02:40)
24. 8. Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked (01:55)
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Handel - Chandos Anthems, Volume 1, Nos 1,2 & 3 (1994)
Handel - Chandos Anthems, Volume 1, Nos 1,2 & 3 (1994)
