June's Music will all have ROYAL associations:
Sunday 3rd June: anthem: The King Shall Rejoice - Handel (1685-1759)
(sung at every coronation since that of George II and Queen Caroline in 1727)
Offertory music: Dem Fernen - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1819-1861)
Voluntary: La Réjouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) - Handel (1685-1759)
Sunday 10th June: Introit: O taste and see - Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
(sung at the Coronation in 1953)
Offertory music: Andante from Sonata in F Kv 13 - Mozart (1759-1791)
Commissioned by Queen Charlotte
Voluntary: The Prince of Denmark's March- Jeremiah Clarke (1673-1707)
Sunday 17th June: anthem: God be in my Head - Walford Davies (1869-1941)
(sung at the Coronation in 1953)
Offertory Music: La Paix (from Music for the Royal Fireworks) - Handel (1685-1759)
Voluntary: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba - Handel (1685-1759)
Sunday 24th June: anthem: I give you a new Commandment - Peter Aston (b. 1938)
(regularly performed at the Royal Maundy Service)
Offertory Music: Fantazia of Foure Parts - Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I
Voluntary: Variations on "God save the Queen" - Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Thursday, 17 May 2012
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