HANDEL: Music for the Chapel Royal (Alexander May/ Andrew Ashwin/ Andrew Gant/ Chapel Royal Choir/ Jacob Ferguson-Lobo/ James Bowman/ Jerome Finnis/ Maciek O' Shea/ Mark Brown/ Michael McGuire/ Musicians Extra-ordinary) (Naxos: 8.557935)

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This recording restores some of Handel's finest but least-known music to the choir for which he wrote it and to the building where he performed it, probably for the first time since his own performances there. Forming one of the most impressive areas of Baroque music, Handel's English church music spans his entire active career in London, from his first anthem composed soon after his arrival, to his last works nearly forty years later. Most of it was stimulated by Handel's creative contact with the English Chapel Royal, a group of professional singers in a different tradition from the opera stars with whom he worked in the theatre.