Music for Royal Occasions
Highlights from the 2022 season of Â鶹Éç Proms, UK’s greatest classical music festival
In the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year the Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra and Â鶹Éç Singers present a celebration of music and royalty in all its splendour: from the music of the Tudor court to the 21st century, by way of Handel’s majestic Coronation Anthem, Elgar's ever-popular Pomp and Circumstance March, choral music by the current Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir and a specially commissioned new work by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Andrew McGregor and music historian Berta Joncus introduce this Prom from the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Broadcast programme:
Arthur Bliss - Jubilant Fanfare
George Frideric Handel - Zadok the Priest
King Henry VIII of England - Pastime with good company
John Ireland - Epic March
Judith Weir - I love all beauteous things
Cheryl Frances-Hoad - ‘Your Servant, Elizabeth’
Edward Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4
Â鶹Éç Singers
Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth - conductor
(Photo: Â鶹Éç Singers, Â鶹Éç Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth performing at Â鶹Éç Proms 2022. Credit: C.Christodoulou/Â鶹Éç)
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- Sat 30 Jul 2022 18:06GMTÂ鶹Éç World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Sat 30 Jul 2022 19:06GMTÂ鶹Éç World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sun 31 Jul 2022 11:06GMTÂ鶹Éç World Service