Handel: Music for State Occasions

Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra directed by Peter Holman

In this special concert Leeds Baroque brings together the four grand anthems Handel wrote for the coronation of George II in 1727 (including Zadok the Priest) with other pieces celebrating other Hanoverian state occasions, including the fine but
neglected anthem This is the day, written for the marriage of princess Anne and the Prince of Orange in 1734.

There will also be the first performance of a new work specially commissioned by Leeds Baroque by Christopher Roberts, prize-winning composer and alumnus of the University of Leeds School of Music and the orchestra. It is a setting of an ode on the death of Handel, entitled Handel breath’d no more. The text is taken from The Tears of Music: A Poem to the Memory of Mr Handel by the Reverend John Langhorne of Hackthorne, Lincolnshire (dated 18 February 1760 and printed in The Gentleman’s Magazine). Commission supported by Leeds Inspired.

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall

Tickets: £18
£16 (advance saver - available until 31 October)
FREE - Students and Under 16s

Programme:

How beautiful are the feet HWV 266 (The Anthem on the Peace, 25 April 1749)

Concerto in D major HWV 317, 338 (Concerto in Ottone, 1722)

Quel fior che all’alba ride HWV 154 (c.1739)

From scourging rebellion HWV229⁹ (A Song on the Victory over the Rebels, 1745)

Chris Roberts: Ode on the Death of Handel

Interval

Anthems for the Coronation of George II and Queen Caroline (11 October 1727)

1. The king shall rejoice HWV260
2. My heart is inditing HWV261
3. Let thy hand by strengthened HWV259
4. Zadok the priest HWV258