Prom 10: Music for Royal Occasions

Live at the BBC Proms: Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers in music linked with royalty, featuring works by Bliss, Britten and Byrd, through Handel, to Vaughan Williams, Elgar and several Masters of the Queen's Music. There's a brand new piece written specially for this event by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Presented by Georgia Mann, from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Bliss: Jubilant Fanfare
Handel: Coronation Anthem No.1: Zadok the Priest
Walton: Orb and Sceptre
Elgar: O hearken thou*§
Harris, arr. Manners: The Windsor Dances
Henry VIII: Pastime good companie*
Britten: Courtly Dances from Gloriana
Parry: I was glad

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Interval: David Owen Norris joins Georgia Mann to reflect on music's role in the construction of royalty, how it intersects with our notions about monarchy, and the accompaniment it has provided for ceremonial events over the centuries. Plus Keelan Carew pops in to share a few of his Proms highlights so far.

Ireland: Epic March
Judith Weir: I love all beauteous things
Byrd: O Lord, let thy servant Elizabeth, our Queen
Handel: Water Music (excerpts)
Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Your Servant, Elizabeth (BBC Commission; first performance)
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4

BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor Barry Wordsworth
Chorus master Martin Fitzpatrick