Dettingen Te Deum / Zadok the priest / etc

'A magnificent Te Deum … Great singing with sprightly playing from the Academy' (Observer)

"The label itself is recommendation enough, but Stephen Layton conducting Cambridge's Trinity College Choir and the Academy of Ancient Music is extra asssurancwe of top-notch quality."
(William Dart NZ Herald June 2008)

'Prepare the sand buckets: the opening of Handel's Dettingen Te Deum is incendiary. Trinity College Choir, the Academy of Ancient Music and the conductor, Layton, deal brilliantly with the reflective moments in a setting written to celebrate George II's victory over the French in 1743' (The Times)

'In a performance as precise and exuberant as this (wonderfully expresive diction from the Trinity Choir), its trumpet-and-drum-fuelled extroversion comes across as elementally exciting' (Daily Telegraph)

'There is no shortage of recordings of Zadok the Priest, but its combination with the Dettingen Te Deum and the organ concerto connected with Alexander's Feast is without rival. Stephen Layton directs the distinctive and well-balanced mixed-voice Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge with excellent players from the Academy of Ancient Music in readings that are full of vigour and rhythmic bite, exquisitely offset by the gentler musings of the contrasting slower, lyrical passages' (International Record Review)

The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, has reached new heights of musical excellence in this latest disc for Hyperion. They perform one of Handel's most florid and dazzling works, the Dettingen Te Deum. The disc also includes a stylish performance of the Organ Concerto No 14 in A major with Richard Marlow at the organ, as well as Handel's best-loved and most gloriously ceremonial anthem, Zadok the Priest.