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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest, HWV 258: excerpts
George Frideric Handel – Coronation Anthem 'My heart is inditing'
Georg Muffat – Armonico tributo - Sonata no. 5 in G major
George Frideric Handel – Let thy hand be strengthened, HWV 259
Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suite no.3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air (arr. L. Stokowski)
Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas - 'When I am laid in earth' (Dido's Lament) (arr. L. Stokowski)
George Frideric Handel – The king shall rejoice, HWV 260
Performers
Richard Egarr – Conductor
Academy of Ancient Music
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Programme Note
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.
There will be no interval