Handel: Chandos Anthems (Anthems for Cannons)

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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      George Frideric Handel
    • PERFORMER
      Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 04, 2025
    • UPC
      3701624511534
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1153
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Sonata

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    2. O sing unto the Lord a new song! O sing unto the Lord all the whole earth. (Soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hilary Cronin, William Gaunt

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    3. Declare his honour unto the heathen, and his wonders unto all people. For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised. He is more to be fear'd than all Gods. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    4. The waves of the sea rage horribly, but yet the Lord who dwells on high is mightier. (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hugo Hymas

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    5. Duet: O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. (Soprano, Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hilary Cronin, Samuel Boden

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    6. Let the whole earth stand in awe of him. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    7. Let the heav'ns rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea make a noise and all that therein is. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    8. Sonata

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    9. Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Deborah Cachet, Hugo Hymas, Raoul Steffani

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    10. Duet: Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. (Soprano, Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Deborah Cachet, Raoul Steffani

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    11. For I acknowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Raoul Steffani

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    12. Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear'd when thou art judg'd. (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hugo Hymas

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    13. Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    14. Make me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy spirit from me. O give me the comfort of thy help again: and stablish me with thy free Spirit. (Soprano)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Deborah Cachet

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    15. Then shall I teach Thy ways unto the wicked: and sinners shall be converted unto Thee. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    16. Sonata

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    17. As pants the hart for cooling streams, so longs my soul for thee O God. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hilary Cronin, Samuel Boden, Raoul Steffani

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    18. Tears are my daily food, while thus they say: where is now thy God? (Soprano)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hilary Cronin

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    19. Now, when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself, for I went with the multitude and brought them out into the house of God (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Samuel Boden

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    20. In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among such as keep holy-day. (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    21. Duet: Why so full of grief, O my soul? Why so disquieted within me? (Soprano, Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Deborah Cachet, Samuel Boden

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    22. Put thy thrust in God, for I will praise him. (Tenor, Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hugo Hymas

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    23. Symphony

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    24. Let God arise, and let His enemies be scatter'd (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Daniel Collins, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    25. Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away (Tenor)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Daniel Collins, Hugo Hymas, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    26. Let the righteous be glad, and rejoice before God (Soprano)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hilary Cronin, Daniel Collins, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    27. O sing unto God, and sing praises unto His name (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Daniel Collins, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    28. Praise be the Lord! (Chorus)

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Deborah Cachet, Daniel Collins, Samuel Boden, Hugo Hymas, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    29. At thy rebuke, O God

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Hilary Cronin, Daniel Collins, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen

    30. Blessed be God

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Arcangelo

      Performer: Daniel Collins, Matthew Long

      Conductor: Jonathan Cohen


In the summer of 1717, after performing his Water Music during a royal cruise on the Thames, Handel began composing for James Brydges (1674-1744), who became the first Duke of Chandos and created the Cannons Concert at his estate in Cannons (near Edgware), with ten instrumentalists and three singers. Handel composed eleven anthems and a Te Deum for him from August 1717 onwards, as well as transposing and revising As pants the hart (HWV 251b). O sing unto the Lord a new song (HWV 249b) is an adaptation of an anthem written three years earlier for the Chapel Royal. The anthem Have mercy upon me, O God (HWV 248) was composed in 1717 and is a paraphrase of the Miserere. The Alleluia of Let God arise (HWV 256a) prefigures the famous Hallelujah chorus from Messiah (1741). Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen now revive these four Chandos anthems composed for Cannons with eight singers and eleven excellent instrumentalists.