Handel - Chandos Anthems (Complete) / Dawson · Kwella · Bowman · Partridge · M. George · The Sixteen · Christophers

Handel - Chandos Anthems (Complete) / Dawson · Kwella · Bowman · Partridge · M. George · The Sixteen · Christophers

Handel - Chandos Anthems (Complete) / Dawson · Kwella · Bowman · Partridge · M. George · The Sixteen · Christophers
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-07-26
Music Label: Chandos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: O Be Joyful In The Lord - Sonata
  2. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: O Be Joyful In The Lord
  3. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: Serve The Lord With Gladness
  4. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: Be Ye Sure That The Lord He Is God
  5. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: O Go Your Way Into His Gates
  6. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: For The Lord Is Gracious
  7. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: Glory Be To The Father
  8. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 1: As It Was In The Beginning
  9. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: In The Lord Put I My Trust - Sonata
  10. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: In The Lord Put I My Trust!
  11. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: God Is A Constant Sure Defense
  12. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: Behold! The Wicked Bend Their Bow
  13. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: But God, Who Hears The Suff'ring Pow'r
  14. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: Snares, Fire And Brimstone
  15. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: The Righteous Lord
  16. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 2: Then Shall My Song
  17. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: Have Mercy Upon Me - Sonata
  18. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: Have Mercy Upon Me, O God
  19. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: Wash Me Thoroughly From My Wickedness
  20. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: For I Acknowledge My Faults
  21. Chandos Anthems: Against Thee Only Have I Sinned
  22. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: Thou Shalt Make Me Hear Of Joy And Gladness
  23. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: Make Me A Clean Heart, O God
  24. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 3: Then Shall I Teach Thy Ways Unto The Wicked
Music CD 2
  1. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: Sonata
  2. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song!
  3. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: Declare His Honour Unto The Heathen
  4. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: The Waves Of The Sea Rage Horribly
  5. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: O Worship The Lord In The Beauty Of Holiness
  6. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: Let The Whole Earth Stand In Awe Of Him
  7. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 4: Let The Heav'ns Rejoice
  8. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: Sonata
  9. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: I Will Magnify Thee, O God My King
  10. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: Ev'ry Day Will I Give Thanks Unto Thee
  11. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: One Generation Shall Praise Thy Works Unto Another
  12. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: The Lord Preserveth All Them That Love Him
  13. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: The Lord Is Righteous In All His Ways
  14. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: Happy Are The People That Are In Such A Case
  15. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 5: My Mouth Shall Speak The Praise Of The Lord
  16. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: Sonata
  17. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: As Pants The Hart For Cooling Streams
  18. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: Tears Are My Daily Food
  19. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: Now, When I Think Thereupon, I Pour My Heart By Myself
  20. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: In The Voice Of Praise And Thanksgiving
  21. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: Why So Full Of Grief, O My Soul?
  22. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 6: Put Thy Trust In God, For I Will Praise Him
Music CD 3
  1. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 1: Sonata
  2. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 2: My Song Shall Be Alway
  3. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 3: For Who Is He Among The Clouds
  4. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 4: God Is Very Greatly To Be Feared
  5. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 5: The Heav'ns Are Thine
  6. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 6: Righteousness And Equity Are The Habitation
  7. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 7: Blessed Is The People
  8. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 7: 8: Thou Are The Glory
  9. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 1: Sonata
  10. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 2: O Come, Let Us Sing Unto The Lord
  11. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 3: O Come, Let Us Worship
  12. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 4: Glory And Worship Are Before Him
  13. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 5: Tell It Out Among The Heathen
  14. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 6: O Magnify The Lord
  15. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 7: The Lord Preserveth The Souls Of The Saints
  16. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 8: For Look, As High As The Heaven Is
  17. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 8: 9: There Is Sprung Up A Light For The Righteous
  18. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 1: O Praise The Lord With One Consent
  19. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 2: Praise Him, All Ye That In His House
  20. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 3: For This Out Truest Int'rest Is
  21. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 4: That God Is Great We Often Have
  22. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 5: With Cheerful Notes Let All The Earth
  23. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 6: God's Tender Mercy Knows No Bounds
  24. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 7: Ye Boundless Realms Of Joy
  25. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 9: 8: Your Voices Raise
Music CD 4
  1. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 10: The Lord Is My Light - Sinfonia
  2. Chandos Anthems: The Lord Is My Light And My Salvation
  3. Chandos Anthems: Though A Host Of Men Were Laid Against Me
  4. Chandos Anthems: One Thing Have I Desired Of The Lord
  5. Chandos Anthems: I Will Offer In His Dwelling An Oblation
  6. Chandos Anthems: For Who Is God But The Lord?
  7. Chandos Anthems: The Lord Is My Strength And My Shield
  8. Chandos Anthems: It Is The Lord That Ruleth The Sea
  9. Chandos Anthems: Sing Praises Unto The Lord
  10. Chandos Anthems: Anthem 11: Let God Arise - Sonata
  11. Chandos Anthems: Let God Arise
  12. Chandos Anthems: Like As The Smoke Vanisheth
  13. Chandos Anthems: Let The Righteous Be Glad
  14. Chandos Anthems: O Sing Unto God
  15. Chandos Anthems: Praised Be The Lord!

Music reviews of Handel - Chandos Anthems (Complete) / Dawson · Kwella · Bowman · Partridge · M. George · The Sixteen · Christophers

Music Review: TELL IT OUT AMONG THE HEATHEN
Rating: 5 Stars

Newman Flower's great biography of Handel mentions `the twelve Chandos anthems'. There are 11 here, that number is explicitly confirmed in the liner note, so I suppose it must be 11, whatever Flower had in mind. The anthem was a specifically English musical form, tracing its descent apparently to the unaccompanied motets of an earlier era. It gave a role to the church choir in the latter half of certain services, and anthems came to be accompanied by either organ or small orchestra. Handel's association with the Earl of Caernarfon, later Duke of Chandos, seems to have come about through the Duke's social pretentiousness. He amassed great wealth dishonestly, and used it to build his palace Cannons at Edgware. He acquired paintings for ostentation, and he seems to have acquired Handel in much the same spirit. Their association appears to have been cordial but brief, just over 12 months in 1718-19. Flower says nothing about the occasions for which the anthems were composed, and the liner note suggests that little is actually known. They are mostly 20 minutes in length, although two stretch to nearly half an hour. The orchestra consists of strings without violas plus an oboe, a bassoon and a couple of recorders. The first 6 anthems are for 3-part chorus lacking altos, the others having 4 or 5 parts, not always including altos. The texts are from the Psalms in the Book of Common Prayer version, except in two anthems where the rhyming versions of Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady are used.

The Sixteen were already known to me in Handel from their fine Samson. However I have just been admiring them on their own in Palestrina, and I had to hear them in Handel again, because for me Handel is simply the greatest stylist of the voice who ever set words to music. It was also an opportunity to acquire and study the Chandos anthems as a complete set. Most of the music goes to the chorus, but there is plenty of solo and ensemble work, with the tenor having the lion's share. They seem to me to differ from Bach's cantatas not only in having their focus strongly concentrated on the voices rather than on instruments but also in having greater internal unity. Cantatas are to set texts for specific liturgical occasions, and are a string of separate `numbers'. As I understand it, the composer could assemble his own text for an anthem, and these anthems are units that break down into smaller subdivisions. Indeed the first anthem does not seem to me to subdivide in any way at all after the orchestral introduction, although there are breaks at six other points. Except for #9, where the first chorus has a lengthy `integral' prelude, each is preceded by a short `sonata' in slow-quick format - this is called a `sinfonia' at anthem 10, a distinction with no difference that I can detect. Arias, or detached solos and ensembles if arias is not the right word, are without da capo repetitions, and there is very little in the way of recitatives or accompagnati.

The chorus here are as superb as elsewhere, the modest but important orchestral parts are immaculate, the recording from 20 years ago is fine basically, and I like the soloists without exception. Right at the start of the first anthem Partridge is recorded in disconcertingly close focus with, as luck would have it, a long sustained `O' that will test how well you like his tone. It suits me fine, the focus adjusts almost immediately, and surely he is both a great singer and a great artist. That said, the performance calls for no more comment. The Sixteen do very well indeed, of course, in conveying depth and strength of tone even in 3-part writing - but whose is the true credit for that? Beecham tells us, if we even need telling: there has been no music since Handel's time that even feebly rivals his for grandeur and build of choral tone. However there is another aspect to Handel's vocal writing that seems to me at least as important, and one that receives less notice. I may call it the vocal rhetoric. By this I do not mean the `effects', although there are a few of those even here. The `snares fire and brimstone' of the second anthem are not treated pictorially, more as just a musical exclamation at such phenomena. However the earthquake and the thunder in #10 are spectacular to this day, I can almost literally see the lightning, and it was surely the capacity to do this kind of thing with such slender resources that led Mozart to say that Handel was the master of them all. Still, I come back to it - there is a deeper characteristic to Handel's musical rhetoric.

Listen attentively to the word-setting just as a technique. Observe the resourcefulness in the matter of repetition, with the musical phrases constantly varied and often the words repeated to different music entirely. Note the combining of phrases, the shortening, the rearrangements, and the associated stylistic features like the changes of pace, stops and starts, and irregular phrase-lengths. It is something entirely without parallel. It takes word-setting out of the ordinary realm of finding music that will express the mood and reflect the spoken rhythm of the words. Speech is no longer what governs this musical utterance, the utterance has become the province of a purely musical design.

This is all done with haughty ease and naturalness, and it was the kind of thing that led Haydn, on his last triumphant visit to London and at the height of his own great powers, to lament that Handel made him feel a novice. Understand this aspect of Handel's style and you will understand his melody better too. Hanslick, superficial as usual, deplored the lack of a freer modern melodic idiom in Handel, and indeed it seems to me that the entire reaction against him, partly caused by travesties in performance and partly by the appalling oratorio tradition that purported to be his legacy, led to the European musical culture as a whole losing contact with his special idiom and excellence. Tovey for one keeps talking about `Bach and Handel' when all he means is Bach. Beethoven had different ideas, and now that a generation or two has emerged from this era of heresy perhaps we can hear Handel with purified ears and begin to appreciate why Beethoven pronounced him the greatest composer who ever lived.
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