Performer: The King’s Consort
Conductor: Robert King
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA67286
Release: 2001
Size: 475 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bells
Work length0:49€0,13
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:39€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Drums
Work length1:32€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Vivat (acclamation)
Work length0:05€0,13
King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:26€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Child, W: O Lord, grant the King a long life
Work length1:40€0,13
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Handel: The Occasional Oratorio
Work length5:12€0,25
King’s Consort
Robert King
Act 1 No 01. Overture. Overture
Track length5:12€0,25
Purcell: I was glad when they said unto me (1685, previously attributed wrongly to John Blow)
Work length4:33€0,25
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
God save King George
Work length0:53€0,13
King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:14€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 2, HWV259 ‘Let Thy Hand be Stengthened’
Work length9:02€0,75
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
I. Let thy hand be strengthened
Track length3:07€0,25
II. Let justice and judgement be the preparation of thy seat
Track length3:44€0,25
III. Alleluia
Track length2:11€0,25
Tallis: Litany
Work length6:51€0,25
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Farmer: Come, Holy Ghost
Work length3:00€0,25
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV258 ‘Zadok the Priest’
Work length5:59€0,25
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:27€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Blow: Behold, O God our defender
Work length2:03€0,25
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:25€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
God save the King
Work length0:13€0,13
King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 3, HWV260 ‘The King Shall Rejoice’
Work length11:34€1,00
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
I. The King shall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord
Track length2:43€0,25
II. Exceeding glad shall he be
Track length3:17€0,25
III. Glory and great worship
Track length2:48€0,25
IV. Alleluia
Track length2:46€0,25
Gibbons, O: Second Service
Work length10:42€0,25
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Morning Canticle. Te Deum
Track length10:42€0,25
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:27€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Blow: God spake sometime in visions
Work length13:18€0,42
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Drums
Work length0:21€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:24€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
God save King George
Work length0:14€0,13
King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 4, HWV261 ‘My Heart is Inditing’
Work length12:55€1,00
King’s Consort, King’s Consort Choir
Robert King
I. My heart is inditing of a good matter
Track length2:55€0,25
II. Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women
Track length3:36€0,25
III. Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in vesture of gold
Track length3:22€0,25
IV. Kings shall be thy nursing fathers
Track length3:02€0,25
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:12€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Handel: March
Work length1:45€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Trumpet fanfare
Work length0:36€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Drums
Work length1:25€0,13
King’s Consort
Robert King
Bells
Crowning The King’s Consort’s celebrations of its twenty-first birthday and its millionth CD sale for Hyperion, comes a truly spectacular reconstruction, that of the Coronation of King George II in Westminster Abbey in 1727. Complete with ringing trumpet fanfares sounding from all corners of the venue, dramatic drum processions up and down the aisles, shouts of acclamation from a huge cast, pealing church bells (especially recorded at historic churches and cathedrals across England and Wales), and some of the greatest of all ceremonial music, this two-for-the-price-of-one disc is a spectacular musical and sonic tour-de-force. The music is fronted by Handel’s four great Coronation Anthems, including Zadok the Priest (so striking at its first 1727 hearing that it has been performed at every Coronation ever since), alongside splendid coronation music by Henry Purcell, John Blow, William Child, John Farmer, Thomas Tallis and Orlando Gibbons.
“Why present just Handel’s Coronation Anthems for King George II when you can present the whole Coronation?” seems to be the proposition that underlies this two-disc set, entitled The Coronation of King George II, 1727. And, thrillingly performed by Robert King directing the King’s Consort and the Choir of the King’s Consort, there seems no good reason not to, and every good reason to, do just that. King, who has led many stirring recordings of Handel’s oratorios in his time, turns in splendid performances of the four Coronation Anthems, along with superb performances of ceremonial choral music by Tallis, Purcell, Gibbons, Blow, Farmer, and Child. But those are just the highlights of the recording, which opens with the tolling of the bells of Westminster Abbey and closes with the tolling of the bells of London and includes along the way trumpet fanfares led by the inestimable Crispian Steele-Perkins, drum processions led by Charles Fullbrook, spoken acclamations by Andrew Carwood as the Archbishop of Canterbury, and shouts of praise by the assembled multitudes. This set may not be for everyone — enemies of the monarchy need not tune in — and may not be for every day — a steady diet of fanfares and processions may be much for some listeners — but when you are in the mood to hear royalty enthroned, this set cannot be surpassed.