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Handel - Water & Fireworks Music & Coronation Anthems

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Handel - Water & Fireworks Music & Coronation Anthems

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2643382

Handel - Water & Fireworks Music & Coronation Anthems


Handel:

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351

arr Mackerras

London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350

Prague Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Coronation Anthem No. 3, HWV260 'The King Shall Rejoice'

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

Coronation Anthem No. 2, HWV259 'Let Thy Hand be Stengthened'

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

Coronation Anthem No. 4, HWV261 'My Heart is Inditing'

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & English Chamber Orchestra, Sir Philip Ledger

Dixit Dominus, HWV 232

Teresa Zylis-Gara (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor) & John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & English Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks


George Frideric Handel was born in Halle, a son of a barber-surgeon of some distinction who was 63 when Handel was born. His aptitude for music presented itself early and he was soon performing to the royalty and aristocracy. At 18 he moved to Hamburg but his real chance to develop his musical talents came when he moved to Rome in 1706. His Dixit Dominus – a setting of Psalm 109 – is now thought to have been written for the festival of Our Lady of Mount Carmel the following year. It shows how well Handel, a German Protestant, had been accepted by his hosts that the Cardinal should commission him to provide music for such a Catholic occasion. Ten years later Handel was in England and the provision of the Water Music for an excursion by barge on the Thames so delighted the new King George I (previously Elector of Hannover) that he duly forgave the composer for his behaviour whilst in his service in Germany.

In 1727 Handel provided four anthems for the Coronation of King George II of which one, Zadok the Priest, has been performed at every subsequent Coronation. The final work in this set is the Music for the Royal Fireworks written to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749.

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