 | from Handel: Dettingen Te Deum (CDA67678) 1 We praise thee, O God [3'53] 37 minutes 56 seconds 16 tracks2 All the earth doth worship thee [2'31] 3 To thee all angels cry aloud [2'14] 4 To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry [2'59] 5 The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee [2'17] 6 Thou art the King of Glory [2'33] 7 When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man [3'11] 8 When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death [1'48] 9 Thou sittest at the right hand of God [2'33] 10 We believe that thou shalt come to be our judge [0'41] 11 Sinfonia [0'47] 12 We therefore pray thee, help thy servants [1'39] 13 Make them to be numbered with thy saints in glory everlasting [1'40] 14 Day by day we magnify thee [3'18] 15 Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin [2'02] 16 O Lord, in thee have I trusted [3'50] ‘In a performance as expert and committed as this, the pealing D major choruses have an elemental boldness and grandeur of effect of which Handel invariably possessed the secret … Stephen Layton ... ‘The score simply teems with incredible invention … Layton's tempos are faultless, the Academy of Ancient Music plays as though possessed, and Neal Davies's solos lend an authority complementing ... ‘A magnificent Te Deum … great singing with sprightly playing from the Academy’ (The Observer) |