Handel - Music for the Chapel Royal | Naxos 8557935

Handel - Music for the Chapel Royal

£12.30

Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days

Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8557935

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 2nd April 2007

Contents

Artists

Choir of the Chapel Royal
Musicians Extra-ordinary

Conductor

Andrew Gant

Works

Handel, George Frideric

As Pants the Hart, HWV251a
» Tears are my daily food
» Why so full of grief, o my Soul
As Pants the Hart, HWV251d
I will magnify thee, O God, HWV250b
Let God Arise, HWV265b
O sing unto the Lord, HWV249a

Artists

Choir of the Chapel Royal
Musicians Extra-ordinary

Conductor

Andrew Gant

About

This recording restores some of Handel’s finest but least-known music to the choir for which he wrote it and to the building where he performed it, probably for the first time since his own performances there. 
 
Forming one of the most impressive areas of Baroque music, Handel’s English church music spans his entire active career in London, from his first anthem composed soon after his arrival, to his last works nearly forty years later.
 
Most of it was stimulated by Handel’s creative contact with the English Chapel Royal, a group of professional singers in a different tradition from the opera stars with whom he worked in the theatre.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here