Music for a King – our Royal Albert Hall debut
2:30 pm, Sun 7 May 2023
Music fit for a King! On coronation weekend, join Epiphoni as we collaborate with the Royal Choral Society for a choral music extravaganza celebrating the crowning of our new King and the RCS’s own 150th anniversary. If you sing, then you’ll be able join in ‘beltissimo’ for Parry’s coronation anthem ‘I Was Glad’, together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the mighty 999-pipe organ, all under the baton of the RCS Music Director, Richard Cooke.
More information via the ticket link.
Programme
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Dvorak: Eia Mater from Stabat Mater
Verdi: Dies Irae from Requiem
Elgar: Nimrod
Elgar: Praise to the Holiest from The Dream of Gerontius
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus
Holst: The Hymn of Jesus
Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha (excerpt)
Panufnik: Cradle Song
Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Dyevo (listen, left/above)
Part: Bogoroditse Dyevo
Parry: I Was Glad
Getting there
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