In Handel's Shadow - Vocal Music by His Rivals in Eighteenth-Century London

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
September 15, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      John Blow, Henry Carey, Jeremiah Clarke, Johann Ernst Gaillard, Elisabetta de Gambarini, Maurice Gre
    • PERFORMER
      Lux Et Umbrae: Robert Crowe, Annette Fischer, Julia Nilsen-Savage, Sigrun Richter, Michael Eberth
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 15, 2023
    • UPC
      5060640070189
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCN0018
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. Recitative: These are Thy glorious Works

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    2. Duet: And with Songs and Choral Symphonies

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    3. Recitative: Fairest of Stars, last in the Train of Night

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    4. Aria: Praise him in thy Spheare

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    5. Recitative: Thou Sun of this great World

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    6. Aria: Sound his Praise in thy Eternal Course

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    7. Recitative: Moon, that now meet'st the Orient Sun

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    8. Aria: Resound his Praise

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    9. Recitative: air, and ye Elements

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    10. Aria: Let your ceaseless Change

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    11. Recitative: Ye Mists, and Exhalations

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    12. Aria: Rising or Falling, still advance his Praise

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    13. Recitative: His Praise, ye Winds

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    14. Aria: in Sign of Worship wave

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    15. Recitative: Fountains, and ye, that warble

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    16. Aria: warbling tune his Praise

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    17. Duet: Joyn Voices, all ye living Souls

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    18. Duet: Ye that in Waters glide

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    19. Duet: Hail! Universal Lord

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    20. Duet: Disperce it

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    21. Aria: How long wilt Thou forget me?

      Composer: Jeremiah Clarke

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    22. Recitative: Let mine enemy say

      Composer: Jeremiah Clarke

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    23. Aria: But my truth is in thy mercy

      Composer: Jeremiah Clarke

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    24. Orpheus with his Lute

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    25. Behold and Listen

      Composer: Elisabetta de Gambarini

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    26. Recitative: Daphne the beautyfull, the coy

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    27. Aria: Turn thee, Leave thy trembling fear!

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    28. Recitative: The River's Ecchoing Banks

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    29. Aria: Father Peneus

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    30. Recitative: Apollo wond'ring stood

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    31. Aria: Nature alone can Love inspire

      Composer: John Ernst Galliard

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    32. Recitative: I go to the Elisian Shade

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    33. Aria: AI fly from Celia's cold disdain

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    34. Recitative: Her Eyes are Brighter

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    35. Aria: See yonder River's flowing Tide

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    36. Recitative: There have I wept

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    37. Aria: Pity my Pains, ye Gentle Swains

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    38. Recitative : Where Yelling and Howling and Grumbling and Growling

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    39. Aria: To some Peaceful Plain convey me

      Composer: Henry Carey

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    40. Prelude in A Minor

      Composer: John Blow

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    41. Duet: Blessed are those that are undefiled

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    42. Recitative: Thou hast charged

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    43. Aria: O that my ways were made so direct

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae

    44. Duetto: Then will I talk of thy Commandments

      Composer: Maurice Greene

      Ensemble: Lux et Umbrae


The figure of George Frideric Handel cast a long shadow over musical London in the first half of the eighteenth century; casting many of his contemporaries – fine composers themselves – into centuries of obscurity. This recording throws light into forgotten corners and discovers some glittering gems; some of them demanding dazzling vocal fireworks from their performers. Several of these composers set scenes from Classical mythology or Old Testament narratives – but they also explore the underside of the Baroque psyche in one of David’s darkest psalms and in a representation of Arcadian madness.