Instruments of Time & Truth
Edward Higginbottom Director

A dazzling pageant of ceremonial music premiered in London: from Purcell’s ‘My Heart is Inditing’ to Handel’s blazing ‘Zadok, taking in lesser-known gems from Jeremiah Clarke, Henry Cooke, John Blow and William Boyce’s glorious ‘The King Shall Rejoice’, gleaming with trumpets. These were the resplendent works that accompanied the crowning of Kings and Queens, from the Restoration of Charles II to the coronation of George III.

This event is for the performance at King’s Place, London. For the event at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, click here.

Henry Cooke Behold, O God, our defender (Charles I, 1661)

Purcell My heart is inditing (James II, 1685)

Blow The Lord God is a Sun and a Shield (William and Mary, 1689)

Clarke Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem (Anne, 1702)

William Croft The Lord is a Sun and a Shield (George I, 1714)

Handel Zadok the priest; Let Thy hand be strengthened; My heart is inditing (George II, 1727)

Boyce The King shall rejoice (George III, 1761)