Proms 2016 Prom 73 - BBC Proms

8 Sep 2016, Royal Albert Hall

22:15 Thu 8 Sep 2016 Next Event

Prom 73: Handel – Coronation Anthems

22:15 Thu 8 Sep 2016 Royal Albert Hall

In this Late Night Prom, Richard Egarr conducts the Academy of Ancient Music in Handel’s glorious Coronation Anthems – the most famous of which is ‘Zadok the Priest’.

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- - George Frideric Handel
  - Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’(6 mins)
  - Coronation Anthem 'My heart is inditing'(12 mins)
- - Georg Muffat
  - Armonico tributo – Sonata No. 5 in G major(22 mins)
- - George Frideric Handel
  - Coronation Anthem 'Let thy hand be strengthened'(8 mins)
- - Johann Sebastian Bach
  - Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 – Air (arr. L. Stokowski)(5 mins)
- - Henry Purcell
  - Dido and Aeneas – ‘When I am laid in earth’ (Dido’s Lament)(5 mins)
- - George Frideric Handel
  - Coronation Anthem 'The king shall rejoice'(11 mins)

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Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr
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About this event

On 11 October 1727, George II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey. The House of Hanover’s favourite composer was the natural choice to provide the music. Handel wrote four majestic Coronation Anthems for the occasion, the most famous, Zadok the Priest, designed to unleash its blazing choral entry just as George stepped into the Abbey’s chancel.

The Academy of Ancient Music returns to the Proms to fill the Royal Albert Hall with all the regal splendour of Handel’s Coronation Anthems and with Leopold Stokowski’s equally grandiose upholstering of music by Bach and Purcell.

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