Handel: The Coronation Of King George II – The King’s Consort

   in Choir & Organ (May, 2019)
This reconstruction of the 1727 coronation in Westminster Abbey was famous not only for the first performances of Handel’s four Coronation Anthems – ‘Let thy hand be strengthened’, ‘Zadok the priest’, ‘The King shall rejoice’ and ‘My heart is inditing’ – but also for the apparent confusions and accidents that occurred during the service itself, as reported by Archbishop Wake in annotations written on the original Order of Service. Fortunately, all the details are now published in the Handel Collected Documents (Cambridge University Press), so we know both what happened as well as what was intended.

This DVD is a reconstruction of the service, and was recorded and filmed at …