King Charles’ coronation to spotlight 12 new pieces of music: Buckingham Palace – National | 24CA News
Twelve newly commissioned items of music will play on the coronation of Britain’s King Charles at Westminster Abbey this May, together with Greek Orthodox music, Buckingham Palace stated, with the 18th century “Zadok the Priest” additionally to be featured.
Six orchestral commissions, 5 choral commissions and one organ fee have been composed for the event, the palace stated on Saturday, together with a brand new Coronation Anthem by musical theater impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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“A range of musical styles and performers blend tradition, heritage and ceremony with new musical voices of today, reflecting The King’s life-long love and support of music and the arts,” the palace stated in an announcement.
It additionally stated Charles requested Greek Orthodox music, which may be traced again to the Byzantine interval, to be featured within the service in tribute to his father, Prince Philip, who was born on the Greek island of Corfu. He died in 2021.
Fanfares might be performed by The State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry and The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, the palace stated.
One of the liturgical sections of the ceremony can even be carried out in Welsh to replicate Charles’s “long-standing and deeply held relationship and affiliation with Wales,” based on the assertion.
Music by classical composers together with George Frideric Handel, Edward Elgar, Hubert Parry and Ralph Vaughan Williams, a few of which has traditionally featured within the service for 400 years, might be included in this system, together with the music of dwelling Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.
Music by Elgar, Parry, and Williams had been additionally carried out on the crowning of Charles’s late mom, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953.
Handel’s coronation anthem “Zadok the Priest,” which was composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727, might be performed on the ceremony, the palace stated.
“I have scored it for the Westminster Abbey choir and organ, the ceremonial brass and orchestra. I hope my anthem reflects this joyful occasion,” composer Lloyd Webber stated of his coronation anthem within the assertion.
(Reporting by Muvija M and Michael Holden; Editing by Kate Holton and David Holmes)
