Handel: Coronation Anthems, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Collection is testimony to the quality of the orchestra and its Danish director whose command of the idiom is second to none
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The birthday ode – composed in 1713, a year after Handel’s arrival in England – is one of his most sublime creations: it might even make you cry.
If you don’t know it, try this new version featuring countertenor Alex Potter and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
Like the rest of the CD, comprising the four coronation anthems (“Zadok the Priest”, “My heart is inditing” etc) and the Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 2, it is testimony to the quality of the EUBO and its Danish director: Mortensen’s command of the idiom is second to none.
Handel
Coronation Anthems, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
European Union Baroque Orchestra/Lars Ulrik Mortensen
(Obsidian)
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