Handel – Music for Royal Occasions

Four Coronation Anthems (incl. Zadok the Priest)
Tu del ciel ministro eletto from Trionfo del Tempo
Sento il cor che lieto gode from Fernando, re di Castiglia
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Selection from Music for the Royal Fireworks

Following their thrilling collaboration last season on Bach's Mass in B Minor, The 24 again unite with dynamic period ensemble Manchester Baroque – now in its seventh year – for a resplendent all-Handel programme (to be repeated at Hallé St Peter's on 29 May). Joined by a trio of stellar soloists (including from the ranks of I Fagiolini), our forces will revel in the composer at his most regal, including the Coronation Anthems penned for the 1727 crowning of George II and his magnificent Music for the Royal Fireworks conceived to accompany celebratory pyrotechnics in London's Green Park marking the end of the War of the Austrian Succession in 1749.

Emily Vine  soprano
Martha McLorinan  mezzo-soprano
Frederick Long  bass
with The 24 &
Manchester Baroque
Robert Hollingworth  conductor
Pauline Nobes  leader, director of Music for the Royal Fireworks