Haydn: Choral Music

Few other conductors on disc convey so happily the drama, symphonic power and spiritual exhilaration of these glorious works than Richard Hickox. He's fully alive to the ominous unease that permeates... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 1998
Catalogue No: CHAN0633
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 63 minutes

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Haydn: Te Deum for Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, Hob. XXIIIc:1

Work length6:56

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Nancy Argenta (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Catherine Denley (alto)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox

Te Deum in C major, Hob.XXIIIc:1

Track length6:56

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Haydn: Mass, Hob. XXII: 9 in C major 'Paukenmesse'

Work length38:47

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Nancy Argenta (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Catherine Denley (alto)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox

Kyrie

Track length4:48

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Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

Track length2:42

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Gloria: Qui tollis peccata mundi

Track length5:29

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Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus

Track length2:24

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Credo: Credo in unum Deum

Track length1:12

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Credo: Et incarnatus est

Track length4:10

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Credo: Et resurrexit

Track length4:30

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Sanctus

Track length2:13

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Benedictus

Track length5:50

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Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei

Track length2:45

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Agnus Dei: Dona nobis pacem

Track length2:44

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Haydn: Alfred, Konig der Angelsachsen, Hob. XXX:5

Work length9:32

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Nancy Argenta (soprano), Jacqueline Fox (actor)
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox

Aria des Schutzgeistes (The Guardian Spirit's Aria), Hob.XXX:5a

Track length6:14

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Chor der Danen (Chorus of the Danes), Hob.XXX:5b

Track length3:18

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Haydn: Te Deum, Hob. XXIIIc:2 'Grosses Te Deum'

Work length8:21

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Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox

Te Deum, Hob.XXIIIc:2

Track length8:21

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Few other conductors on disc convey so happily the drama, symphonic power and spiritual exhilaration of these glorious works than Richard Hickox. He's fully alive to the ominous unease that permeates the great Mass in Time ofWar, but while others strive for maximum dramatic and rhetorical effect, he directs the Mass with a natural, unforced sense of phrase and pace. The playing of Collegium Musicum 90, led by Simon Standage, is polished and athletic, with detail sharply etched, while the chorus sings with fresh tone and incisive attack. The four soloists are well matched in the anxious C minor Benedictus; elsewhere Nancy Argenta brings a pure, slender tone, and a graceful sense of phrase to the Kyrie, while in the 'Qui tollis' Stephen Varcoe deploys his mellow baritone with real sensitivity.
The fill-ups are imaginatively chosen. The two Te Deum settings epitomise the immense distance Haydn travelled during his career, the rococo exuberance and strict species counterpoint of the little-known early work contrasting with the grandeur and massive, rough-hewn energy of the 1799 setting.
The two numbers of incidental music Haydn completed for the play King Alfred in 1796, shortly before embarking on the Mass, are a real collectors' item. Argenta sings the first hymnlike E flat aria with chaste elegance, while choir and orchestra palpably enjoy themselves in the following number, a rollicking, brassy celebration of the Danes' victory over the Anglo- Saxons. Invigorating performances and firstclass recorded sound, with an ideally judged balance between chorus and orchestra.

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