Composer: George Frideric Handel
Performer: Fflur Wyn, Rachel Kelly, Diana Moore, Nathan Haller, Cody Quattlebaum, Christ Church Cathedral Choir
Orchestra: Festspiel Orchester Gottingen
Conductor: Laurence Cummings
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Accent
Catalogue: ACC26415
Release: 2021
Size: 450 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
The Choice of Hercules (Live)
01. No. 1, Sinfonia
02. No. 2, See Hercules! How Smiles Yon Myrtle Plain
03. No. 3, Come, Blooming Boy
04. No. 4, There the Brisk Sparkling Nectar Drain
05. No. 5, While for Thy Arms That Beauty Glows
06. No. 6, Away, Mistaken Wretch, Away!
07. No. 7, This Manly Youth’s Exalted Mind
08. No. 8, Rise, Youth! Exalt Thyself and Me
09. No. 9, Go, Assert Thy Heav’nly Race
10. No. 10, In Peace, in War
11.No. 11, So Shalt Thou Gain Immortal Praise
12. No. 12, Hearst Thou, What Dangers Then Thou Must Engage?
13. No. 13, Turn Thee, Youth, to Joy and Love
14. No. 14, Short Is My Way, Fair, Easy, Smooth and Plain
15. No. 15, Yet, Can I Hear That Dulcet Lay
16. No. 16, Enjoy the Sweet Elysian Grove
17. No. 17, Oh! Whither, Reason, Dost Thou Fly?
18. No. 18, Where Shall I Go?
19. No. 19, Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent
20. No. 20, Mount, Mount the Steep Ascent
21. No. 21, Arise! Mount the Steep Ascent
22. No. 22, The Sounds Breathe Fire
23. No. 23, Lead, Goddess, Lead the Way!
24. No. 24, Virtue Will Place Thee in That Blest Abode
CD 02
Te Deum in D major ‘Dettingen’, HWV283 (Live)
01. I. We Praise Thee, O God
02. II. All the Earth Doth Worship Thee
03. III. To Thee All Angels Cry Aloud
04. IV. To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim
05. V. The Glorious Company of the Apostels
06. VI. Thou Art the King of Glory
07. VII. When Thou Tookest upon Thee
08. VIII. When Thou Hadst Overcome the Sharpness of Death
09. IX. Thou Sittest at the Right Hand of God
10. X. Symphony
11. XI. We Therefore Pray Thee
12. XII. Make Them to Be Number’d
13. XIII. Day by Day We Magnify Thee
14. XIV. Vouchsafe, O Lord
15. XV. O Lord, in Thee Have I Trusted
This recording from the 2018 Göttingen Handel Festival presents two rarely heard works by Georg Friedrich Haendel: The Choice of Hercules and the Te Deum for the Victory of Dettingen. In The Choice of Hercules from 1751, Handel musically processes the mythical theme of Hercules at the crossroads, whereby Hercules’ vacillation between virtue and lust is ideal for the back and forth in the search for the right path in life.
The Dettingen Te Deum (HWV 283) is a cantata composed by Handel in 1743. On 27 June 1743, the British army and its allies under the command of King George II had defeated the French army at the Battle of Dettingen. Handel was commissioned to write a Te Deum “with timpani and trumpets” for the victory celebrations. Laurence Cummings, the Handel Festival Orchestra, outstanding soloists and the legendary Christ Church Cathedral Choir from Oxford provide this successful performance.
This recording from the 2018 Gottingen Handel Festival presents two rarely heard works by George Frideric Handel: “The Choice of Hercules” and the “Te Deum for the Victory of Dettingen”. In “The Choice of Hercules” from 1751, Handel musically processes the mythical theme of Hercules at the crossroads, whereby Hercules’ vacillation between virtue and lust is ideal for the back and forth in the search for the right path in life.
The “Dettingen Te Deum” (HWV 283) is a cantata composed by Handel in 1743. On 27 June 1743, the British army and its allies under the command of King George II had defeated the French army at the Battle of Dettingen. Handel was commissioned to write a Te Deum “with timpani and trumpets” for the victory celebrations.
Laurence Cummings, the Handel Festival Orchestra, outstanding soloists and the legendary Christ Church Cathedral Choir from Oxford provide the successful performance.