Sample Programmes

ALL Programmes: © Graham Lea-Cox

From Purcell and Handel to Boyce and Arne

Orchestral forces unless otherwise stated: 2202 2000 Drums Strings Continuo (Portative & Great Organ)

1.  Coronation Music for the Hanoverian Kings of England

William Boyce: For the Coronation of George III, 1761:  The King Shall Rejoice / The Lord is a Sun

George Frederic Handel:  For the Coronation of George II, 1727:

To be chosen from:

Zadok the Priest

Let Thy Hand be Strengthened

The King Shall Rejoice

My Heart is Inditing

or a complete performance of:

George Frederic Handel: Music for the Coronation of George II, 1727:

Zadok the Priest

Let Thy Hand be Strengthened

The King Shall Rejoice

My Heart is Inditing.

2.  Music for the Church, Saints, Kings and Paupers.  

Henry Purcell:

An Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day  1692 – ‘Hail, Bright Cecilia’

or

An Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary, 1694  – ‘Come, Come Ye Sons of Art’

For recorders; theorbo/harpsichord and bass viol continuo

George Frederic Handel: 

For the Coronation of George II, 1727:              The King Shall Rejoice / My Heart is Inditing

William Boyce:

O  be Joyful in God all ye Lands

Written for the Installation of the Duke of Newcastle as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1749

or

Lord, Thou hast been our refuge (1755)  [c. 30′]

Written for the annual service of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy (Orphans), St. Paul’s Cathedral

Other Repertoire Suggestions:

George Frederic Handel:  Foundling Hospital Anthem (1749) ‘Blessed are they that considereth the poor’

for SSAT soloists, SATB Chorus

William Boyce:  The Souls of the Righteous –  the “Funeral Anthem” for AT soloists, SATB chorus; 2001 2200 T Stgs Cont.   

Written to console the Royal Family upon the death of  George II)

Thomas Arne:  Libera Me (Requiem) for BTS soloists,SATB Chorus& orchestra;

Arne, a Roman Catholic, wrote this in 1770 on the death of a friend.