Handel: Te Deum & Jubilate - Croft: Ode for the Peace of Utrecht
6/1/2010, 22 Tracks, 1:13:02
Featuring
Jos van Veldhoven
William Towers
Wolfram Lattke
Julian Podger
Peter Harvey
De Nederlandse Bachvereniging
George Frideric Handel
William Croft
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Historical Context
The Netherlands Bach Society, founded in 1921, is the oldest early music ensemble in the Netherlands and possibly in the world.
Performer Biography
Jos van Veldhoven has attracted attention for performing 'new' repertoire within early music, including oratorios by Telemann and Graun, and reconstructions of Bach's St. Mark Passion.
Performer Biography
Jos van Veldhoven, the conductor, has been the artistic director of The Netherlands Bach Society since 1983 and founded the Utrechts Barok Consort in 1976.
Composition History
George Frideric Handel, a foreign composer and chapelmaster to the Elector of Hannover, was remarkably commissioned to compose the Utrecht Te Deum for an imposing English state occasion.
Historical Context
The Treaty of Utrecht, signed on April 11, 1713, ended almost two centuries of worldwide warfare and was the first peace achieved through diplomacy.
Composition History
William Croft's Ode for the Peace of Utrecht was composed to earn him a prestigious doctorate at Oxford, requiring the composition and performance of a work for soloists, choir, and orchestra.
Performer Biography
Jos van Veldhoven is a professor of choral conducting at both the Amsterdam Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory, The Hague.
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