Proms 2022 Prom 10: Music for Royal Occasions - BBC Proms

22 Jul 2022, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Fri 22 Jul 2022 Next Event

Prom 10: Music for Royal Occasions

19:30 Fri 22 Jul 2022 Royal Albert Hall

Happy and glorious: the BBC Singers join the BBC Concert Orchestra for a Platinum Jubilee celebration of music and royalty spanning six centuries.

Programme

- - Arthur Bliss
  - ‘Jubilant’ Fanfare(1 mins)
- - George Frideric Handel
  - Coronation Anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’(10 mins)
- - William Walton
  - Coronation March ‘Orb and Sceptre’(7 mins)
- - Edward Elgar
  - O hearken Thou(3 mins)
- - William Henry Harris
  - The Windsor Dances(6 mins)arr. Jonathan Manners
- - King Henry VIII of England
  - Pastime with good company(3 mins)
- - Benjamin Britten
  - Courtly Dances from ‘Gloriana’(9 mins)
- - Hubert Parry
  - Coronation Anthem ‘I Was Glad’(8 mins)
- - interval
- - John Ireland
  - Epic March(9 mins)
- - Judith Weir
  - I love all beauteous things(4 mins)
- - William Byrd
  - O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth(3 mins)
- - George Frideric Handel
  - Water Music, Suite No. 1 – I: Overture(3 mins)arr. Hamilton Harty
  - Water Music, Suite No. 1 – II: Adagio e staccato(2 mins)arr. Hamilton Harty
  - Water Music, Suite No. 1 – V: Air.(3 mins)arr. Hamilton Harty
  - Water Music, Suite No. 1 – XI: Alla Hornpipe(4 mins)arr. Hamilton Harty
- - Ralph Vaughan Williams
  - Silence and Music(5 mins)
- - Cheryl Frances-Hoad
  - Your Servant, ElizabethBBC commission: world premiere
- - Edward Elgar
  - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G major(4 mins)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

Happy and glorious: the story of British music is inextricably linked with royalty, and down the centuries composers ranging from Handel and Elgar to Walton, Parry and Vaughan Williams have risen to royal occasions with music of breath-taking pageantry, beauty and power. In the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers present a celebration of music and royalty in all its splendour: from the music of the Tudor court to Britten’s Coronation opera Gloriana, by way of Handel’s majestic Coronation Anthems, choral music by the current Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir, and a specially commissioned new work by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Broadcast on BBC TV on Sunday 24 July.

Part of

Proms 2022 BBC Singers 2022-23 BBC Concert Orchestra at the Proms 2022 Classical for starters Proms on TV

Discover the Music

Zadok