from Westminster Abbey. EMMA KIRKBY (soprano) ELIZABETH PRIDAY (soprano)
MICHAEL CHANCE (counter-tenor) DAVID JAMES
(counter-tenor)
WILLIAM KENDALL (tenor) STEPHEN VARCOE (bass) CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER
ABBEY
AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
HIS MAJESTIES SAGBUTTS
AND CORNETTS conducted by MARTIN NEARY and TON KOOPMAN. William of Orange and his wife Mary were jointly crowned King and Queen on 11 April 1689. Almost all of the music heard at their Coronation is performed in this evening's tercentenary concert, which consists of settings by the Abbey organist Henry Purcell : / Was Glad; Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem, and the Te
Deum and Jubilate; and by his predecessor
John Blow : Behold, 0 God Our Defender; The Lord God Is a Sun and a Shield; Let
My Prayer Come Up and / Was Glad. Also a tiny version of Zadok the Priest composed for the coronation of Charles II by Henry Lawes.
(Given earlier this evening in association with AT and T Network Systems UK Ltd and Commercial Union and Delta Lloyd)