Handel: Chandos Anthems, Vol. 3 - Nos. 7, 8 & 9

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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. --Matthew Westphal

Handel: Chandos Anthems, Vol. 3 - Nos. 7, 8 & 9, Music, James Bowman, Michael George, George Frideric Handel, Harry Christophers, Sophia McKenna, Sixteen Choir & Orchestra, Sixteen Orchestra, Patrizia Kwella, Ian Partridge, David Woodcock, William Thorp, Anthem, Choral, Classical, Classical Collections-Artist Desc., Classical Music
Handel: Chandos Anthems, Vol. 3 - Nos. 7, 8 & 9
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 Handel: Chandos Anthems, Vol. 3 - Nos. 7, 8 & 9

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ASIN: B000000A4A
Release Date: 1992-07-29

Tracks:

  1. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: Sonata
  2. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: My Song Shall Be Alway
  3. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: For Who Is He Among The Clouds
  4. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: God Is Very Greatly To Be Feared
  5. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: The Heav'ns Are Thine
  6. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: Righteousness And Equity Are The Habitation
  7. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: Blessed Is The People
  8. Chandos Anthem No. 7: My Song Shall Be Alway: Thou Art The Glory
  9. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: Sonata
  10. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord
  11. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: O Come, Let Us Worship
  12. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: Glory And Worship Are Before Him
  13. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: Tell It Out Among The Heathen
  14. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: O Magnify The Lord
  15. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: The Lord Preserveth The Souls Of The Saints
  16. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: For Look, As High As The Heaven Is
  17. Anthem 8: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord: There Is Sprung Up A Light For The Righteous
  18. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: O Praise The Lord With One Consent
  19. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: Praise Him, All Ye That In His House
  20. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: For This Our Truest Int'rest Is
  21. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: That God Is Great We Often Have
  22. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: With Cheerful Notes Let All The Earth
  23. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: God's Tender Mercy Knows No Bounds
  24. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: Ye Boundless Realms Of Joy
  25. Anthem 9: O Praise The Lord With One Consent: Your Voices Raise

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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. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Valuable.......2005-11-23

Harry Christophers continued his valuable series of recordings of Handel’s “Chandos Anthems” with this third volume containing Anthems Nos. 7, 8 and 9. The recording was made at St. Jude’s Church, London, in January and February 1989. These slightly later anthems require a four-part choir and include, for the first time in this series, male altos. There is also a male alto solo part, here sung by James Bowman with quite amazing delicacy, especially considering that the pitch is, for him, rather low. Soprano Lynne Dawson appears not to have been available and is here replaced by Patrizia Kwella, herself an accomplished Handelian. Her voice has a sweetness and simplicity that becomes these anthems very well. The other two soloists, Ian Partridge (tenor) and Michael George (bass), participated in the two previous CDs. Ian Partridge has a very English timbre, something that an American singer colleague of mine recently declared “did not convince” him – perhaps he detected a certain lack of religious fervour. But on the whole I felt that Ian Partridge’s style fits rather well with this decidedly “Augustean” music – but each listener must decide for himself or herself: Try track 4 (“God is very greatly to be feared in the counsel of the saints”), which is a tenor air and not, as the booklet would suggest, a trio for soprano, tenor and bass, or track 11 (“O come, let us worship and fall down”).

In the orchestra there were also some changes. David Woodcock took over as leader, and he and William Thorp produce some excellent solo violin playing, as also does Sophia McKenna on the oboe. The instrumental passages and accompaniment appear to have gained in stature since the first two CDs of the edition.

Handel’s music is, as always, superb, and he seems to have had no difficulties in drawing inspiration from English psalm texts (Anthem No. 9 is on a rhyming paraphrase by Tate and Brady). However, the famous trio “Thou rulest the raging of the sea” has been proved spurious and is not included on this CD. Anthem No. 9 (“Praise the Lord with one consent”) is beautifully crafted, the alternating passages for choir and soloists expressing a joy and confidence that, for sacred music, should be par for the course but are, in fact, quite rare.

All in all, this is a more than worthy successor to the previous two CDs of the series and a most welcome addition to the Sixteen’s grand discography.

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