Friday, 22 May 2020

Handel - Musick for the Royal Fireworks. Four Coronation Anthems (The King's Consort, Robert King)


G.F. Handel


The Four Coronation Anthems, HWV 258-261


Musick for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351


(24 oboes, 12 bassoons, 9 trumpets, 9 horns & 4 sets of timpani)


Performers:

The Choir of New College, Oxford

(Edward Higginbottom, dir.)

The King's Consort

(on period instruments)

Robert King, dir.


Edition: hyperion 1989
Recording:(Anthems): Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 2/1989;(Fireworks): St Barnaba's Church, Finchley, London, 1/1989
TT: 56'53''