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George Frideric Handel, Cambridge Choir of King's College, King's College Choir Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (1 Oct 2001)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: EMI Classics
  • ASIN: B00005N6UE
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,199 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Zadok The Priest (Handel): Zadok The PriestKing's College Choir, Cambridge/Academy of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 1:50£0.89
Listen  2. Zadok The Priest (Handel): And All The People Rejoic'dKing's College Choir, Cambridge/Academy of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury0:46£0.89
Listen  3. Zadok The Priest (Handel): God Save The KingKing's College Choir, Cambridge/Academy of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:47£0.89
Listen  4. Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened: Let Thy Hand Be StrengthenedChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 3:02£0.89
Listen  5. Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened: Let Justice And JudgementChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:33£0.89
Listen  6. Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened: Alleluia!Choir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:06£0.89
Listen  7. The King Shall Rejoice: The King Shall RejoiceChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:43£0.89
Listen  8. The King Shall Rejoice: Exceeding Glad Shall He BeChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:54£0.89
Listen  9. The King Shall Rejoice: Glory And WorshipChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury0:31£0.89
Listen10. The King Shall Rejoice: Thou Hast Prevented HimChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:15£0.89
Listen11. The King Shall Rejoice: Alleluia!Choir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:46£0.89
Listen12. My Heart Is Inditing: My Heart Is InditingChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:44£0.89
Listen13. My Heart Is Inditing: Kings' DaughtersChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:56£0.89
Listen14. My heart Is Inditing: Upon Thy Right HandChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 2:48£0.89
Listen15. My Heart Is Inditing: Kings Shall Be Thy Nursing FathersChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross/Benjamin Bayl/Stephen Cleobury 3:06£0.89
Listen16. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 1. Eternal Source Of Light DivineChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 3:17£0.89
Listen17. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 2. The Day That Gave Great Anna BirthChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 2:40£0.89
Listen18. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 3. Let All The Winged Race With JoyChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 2:35£0.89
Listen19. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 4. Let Flocks And Herds Their Fear ForgetChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 1:43£0.89
Listen20. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): The Day That GaveChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross0:39£0.89
Listen21. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 5. Let Rolling Streams Their Gladness ShowChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 2:26£0.89
Listen22. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 6. Kind Health Descends On Downy WingsChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 4:29£0.89
Listen23. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 7. The Day That Gave Great Anna BirthChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 1:46£0.89
Listen24. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 8. Let Envy Then Conceal Her HeadChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 2:26£0.89
Listen25. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): 9. United Nations Shall CombineChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 1:27£0.89
Listen26. Ode For The Birthday Of Queen Anne (Eternal Source Of Light Divine): The Day That GaveChoir Of King's College, Cambridge/Academy Of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury/Susan Gritton/Robin Blaze/Michael George/Daniel Hyde/Pavlo Beznosiuk/Alastair Ross 1:51£0.89


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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This recording of the Handel Coronation Anthems from 1727 is just about the best there is on CD at the moment. King's College Cambridge choir is rightly celebrated as probably the best cathedral choir in Europe if not the world. What sticks out here is the clarity of the diction of the singers, and the beautifully shaped lines that Stephen Cleobury manages to tease from the choir and the Academy of Ancient Music, who record the anthems here for the first time.

That said, the major recommendation of this CD comes from a ravishing performance of the little known birthday ode that Handel wrote for Queen Anne in 1713. Probably unperformed in Handel's lifetime (Queen Anne was ill apparently at the occasion when this was to be performed), there is more than a echo of Purcell whom Handel certainly admired and whose music he knew well. Eternal Source of Light Divine has only been recorded twice - both with James Bowman singing the glorious alto part. Whilst the recording by King and Bowman on Hyperion was superb, Robin Blaze sings the opening aria with poise, panache and delightful delicacy. Together with the other solists Michael George and Susan Gritton, Blaze makes this music jump out at you with its freshness and melifluous shape.

Once bitten by the majesty of this music how can anyone resist Handel's power to move the senses ?

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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For many years I've been looking for my ideal version of Handel's great Zadok the Priest, and I'm somewhere near it at last. So far as this performance goes, I may actually have got there, all I miss in this account is a little more vividness in the recorded sound. As far as the rest of the disc goes, I have no complaints or reservations at all. The four coronation anthems are given this time in the sequence Zadok, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing. Opinions vary as to the appropriate order for them, but obviously if you take a different view of the matter it is very simple to sequence them however you think best. The balance of the disc is taken up with an earlier work, a birthday ode for Queen Anne, probably composed for that monarch's 48th birthday in 1713.

Back to Zadok. Please forgive a possible appearance of dogmatism if I say that the tempo is absolutely right. Cleobury's speed here is much as I remember it from the recording of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. It may be faster than one is used to, but there is a very good reason for it. Even at this speed, that spine-tingling orchestral introduction takes a full minute and 20 seconds to reach the great choral chords, and it measures out the tread of the monarch and consort, one stately pace to every four notes, as they advance towards the altar steps in Westminster Abbey, the choral outburst coming as they arrive at them. The choral tone here is very full and grand. I would have been interested to know whether Cleobury has used a larger chorus at this point than later - on one occasion Handel is known to have had 500 performers in Zadok. There are certainly not 500 here, and Handel's choral writing can convey an impression of multitudes even with a smallish choir. From this point on the chorus is appropriately small, clear in its diction and even, to my delight, producing a trill on `ever'. The other three anthems are beautifully done and beautifully recorded. There are various Alleluias in the first three including Zadok, and here, as in the great chorus in Messiah, Handel scans the word sometimes as All-e-LU-ia and sometimes as All-eh-EH-lu-IA. He learned the latter way of doing it from Purcell, and 150 years after Handel's anthems Brahms uses it again in his great Triumphlied celebrating the battle of Sedan.

The words to the birthday ode are by Ambrose Phillips. They are the usual sycophantic rubbish, but `twas ever thus. In days of old such toweringly great poets as Horace and Pindar had turned out equally wince-making sentiments, they just expressed them a lot better. The music is another matter, being simply exquisite. I have been familiar with these three soloists in Handel for a couple of years now, and what a pleasure it is to listen to such perfect singing and perfect sense for the composer's style. The opening number is a heavenly duet for counter-tenor and trumpet. I was very let down at not seeing the trumpeter credited in the liner. It may be Crispian Steel-Perkins (it's good enough to be him) but we are not told. The choir of King's, the Academy of Ancient Music and the director need no introduction by now, and are at their superlative best throughout.

The liner-note, by Anthony Hicks, is helpful, informative and readable, and is given in German and French as well as in English, as are the texts to the music. The recording is really very good too, except that I was eager for just that last ounce of `presence' at the start of Zadok that would have made this disc absolutely perfect for me. The set dates from 2001 I see, so perhaps it will be reissued sometime with a little remastering, fulfilling one of my remaining aspirations in this life.
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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King's have entirely done Handel justice. Zadok in particular is worth buying the CD for alone, with the suspense of the introduction heightened for full effect. I advise clearing the area and turning up the volume.
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