Music for Royal Occasions
Highlights from the 2022 season of BBC Proms, UK’s greatest classical music festival
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 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
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth - conductor
(Photo: BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth performing at BBC Proms 2022. Credit: C.Christodoulou/BBC)
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- Sat 30 Jul 202218:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Sat 30 Jul 202219:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
- Sun 31 Jul 202211:06GMTBBC World Service
