Handel: Chandos Te Deum - Chandos Anthem No. 8 Adrian Butterfield and London Handel Orchestra & Soloists

• George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759): Te Deum, HWV 281:
• 1Te Deum, HWV 281: I. We praise thee, O God03:14
• 2Te Deum, HWV 281: II. All the earth doth worship thee03:18
• 3Te Deum, HWV 281: III. The glorious company of the Apostles03:19
• 4Te Deum, HWV 281: IV. Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ02:56
• 5Te Deum, HWV 281: V. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man02:21
• 6Te Deum, HWV 281: VI. When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death01:26
• 7Te Deum, HWV 281: VII. Thou sittest at the right hand of God04:05
• 8Te Deum, HWV 281: VIII. We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge03:17
• 9Te Deum, HWV 281: IX. Day by day we magnify thee01:59
• 10Te Deum, HWV 281: X. And we worship thy Name, ever world without end01:20
• 11Te Deum, HWV 281: XI. Vouch-safe, O lord, to keep us this day without sin03:46
• 12Te Deum, HWV 281: XII. O Lord in thee have I trusted04:09
• Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: I. Symphony:
• 13Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: I. Symphony: Largo-Allegro03:55
• 14Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: II. O come let us sing unto the Lord03:19
• 15Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: III. O come let us worship03:41
• 16Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: IV. Glory and worship are before Him01:47
• 17Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: V. Tell it, tell it out among the heathen05:57
• 18Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: VI. O magnify the Lord03:39
• 19Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: VII. The Lord preserveth the souls03:02
• 20Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: VIII. For look as high as the heaven is02:18
• 21Chandos Anthem No.8, HWV 253: IX. There is sprung up a light for the righteous02:31
• Total Runtime01:05:19

Info for Handel: Chandos Te Deum - Chandos Anthem No. 8

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, as 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 wealth plundered 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, where 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 eventually lured back to the embrace of the Royal Court and London’s rediscovered love of opera. Now the 1st Duke of Chandos, Brydges had 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 & Soloists
Adrian Butterfield, conductor, violin

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