Anything catch your ear during Charles’ coronation? Here’s a user-friendly itemization of composers, compositions, commissions, and clips. However, to hear how it all actually came off, you will have to employ your Google skills. Good luck finding video without someone blathering over the music.
Performers include Bryn Terfel, Pretty Yende, Roderick Williams, John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Antonio Pappano and musicians of the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, and Royal Opera House Orchestras, and Royal Harpist Alis Huws.
New works by Patrick Doyle, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Master of the King’s Music Judith Weir join old favorites by George Frideric Handel and William Walton. In all, twelve new works were commissioned for the ceremony.
According to the article, in a historic first, the complete coronation will be recorded and released as an album on the very day of the ceremony.
Tomorrow looks to be all pop pap for the populace. You can learn more about the longhair stuff here.
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/king-coronation-full-order-of-service/

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