In Handel's Shadow: Vocal Music By His Rivals in Eighteenth-century London

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.

1: These Are Thy Glorious Works
2: And With Songs and Choral Symphonies
3: Fairest of Stars, Last in the Train of Night
4: Praise Him in Thy Spheare
5: Thou Sun of This Great World
6: Sound His Praise in Thy Eternal Course
7: Moon, That Now Meet'st the Orient Sun
8: Resound His Praise
9: Air, and Ye Elements
10: Let Your Ceaseless Change
11: Ye Mists, and Exhalations
12: Rising Or Falling, Still Advance His Praise
13: His Praise, Ye Winds
14: In Sign of Worship Wave
15: Fountains, and Ye, That Warble
16: Warbling Tune His Praise
17: Joyn Voices, All Ye Living Souls
18: Ye That in Waters Glide
19: Hail! Universal Lord
20: Disperce It
21: How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me?
22: Let Mine Enemy Say
23: But My Truth Is in Thy Mercy
24: Orpheus With His Lute
25: Behold, and Listen
26: Daphne the Beautyfull, the Coy
27: Turn Thee, Leave Thy Trembling Fear!
28: The River's Ecchoing Banks
29: Father Peneus
30: Apollo Wond'ring Stood
31: Nature Alone Can Love Inspire
32: I Go to the Elisian Shade
33: I Fly from Celia's Cold Disdain
34: Her Eyes Are Brighter
35: See Yonder River's Flowing Tide
36: There Have I Wept
37: Pity My Pains, Ye Gentle Swains
38: Where Yelling and Howling and Grumbling and Growling
39: To Some Peaceful Plain Convey Me
40: Prelude in a Minor
41: Blessed Are Those That Are Undefiled
42: Thou Hast Charged
43: O That My Ways Were Made So Direct
44: Then Will I Talk of Thy Commandments

Composer: Maurice Greene, Henry Carey, Jeremiah Clarke, John Blow, Elisabetta de Gambarini, Johann Ernst Galliard

Number of Discs: 1

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