Event listing: Handel's Royal Music: Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen | Symphony Hall | Sat 2 Jun 2012 at 19:30

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Symphony HallBroad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Coronation Anthem no. 1: Zadok the priest, HWV 258
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Water Music, Suite no. 2 in D major, HWV 349
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Coronation Anthem no. 2: The King shall rejoice, HWV 260
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Coronation Anthem no. 4: Let thy hand be strengthened; HWV 259
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Royal Fireworks Music, HWV 351
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Coronation Anthem no. 3: My heart is inditing, HWV 261
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)	Settings of "Amen" / "Halleluja, amen" HWV 269-77

Performers

Academy of Ancient Music
Choir of the AAM
Richard Egarr	Conductor

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By royal appointment: Handel in Birmingham with the Academy of Ancient Music

Katherine Dixson, 5th June

How’s this for an original way of displaying one’s celebratory Union Flag? Strapped to the top of one’s contrabassoon! Apart from the absence of the National Anthem and horseracing, this concert gave us the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend in a nutshell, encompassing the solemnity and sovereignty of all four of Handel’s Coronation Anthems, the exuberance of the Music for the Royal Firework

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