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Chandos Te Deum Hwv 281 & Chandos Anthem No.8 Hwv 253
London Handel Orchestra & Soloists / Adrian Butterfield
Chandos Te Deum Hwv 281 & Chandos Anthem No.8 Hwv 253
London Handel Orchestra & Soloists / Adrian Butterfield
Before coming into contact with James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon, Handel was is dire straits in London. His pension of £200 a year for teaching the Royal princesses had stopped, so had the public taste for opera. London had plunged into a hedonistic, alcohol and gambling driven lifestyle, where the bawdier things were the better. Brydges, one of the most colourful and roguish figures of the day had built himself a vast palace (from plundered wealth whilst he was Paymaster General during the Spanish Wars of Succession) to rival anything the King could boast of - Cannons House in north London. Set up as a rival court to King George I, he employed Handel to replace Johann Pepusch as Kapellmeister. No surprise that the Earl has been described as 'having no enmity with his conscience' The 'King of Bling' would have 13 Chandos Anthems and the Te Deum on this recording composed by a grateful Handel. It couldn't last though, and Handel was lured back to the embrace of the Royal Court and London's new - found love of opera. The 1st Duke of Chandos as Brydges had become, lost his vast fortune and his home in the South Sea Bubble financial crisis of 1720, and Cannons House was demolished, its treasures and features sold off. It was as if it had never been - except for Handel's glorious music composed at Cannons House.
LONDON HANDEL ORCHESTRA & CHORUS
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | December 7, 2018 |
EAN/UPC | 0880040420323 |
Label | ONYX CLASSICS ONYX4203 |
Genre | Choral Music |
Dimensions | 124 × 139 × 6 mm · 49 g |
Conductor | Adrian Butterfield |
Orchestra | London Handel Orchestra & Soloists |
Track list
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- London Handel Orchestra & Soloists; Adrian Bu - Ch
- We Praise Thee, O God
- All the Earth
- The Glorious Company
- Thou Art the King
- When Thou Tookest
- When Thou Hadst Overcome
- Thou Sittest at the Right Hand
- We Believe That Thou Shalt Come
- Day by Day
- And We Worship Thy Name
- Vouchsafe, O Lord
- O Lord, in Thee Have I Trusted
- London Handel Orchestra & Soloists; Adrian Bu - Ch
- Symphony
- O Come Let Us Sing Unto the Lord
- O Come Let Us Worship & Fall Down
- Glory & Worship Are Before Him
- Tell It out Among the Heathen
- O Magnify the Lord
- The Lord Preserveth the Souls of the Saints
- For Look As High As the Heaven is
- There is Sprung Up a Light for the Righteous