02 July 2010 at 7:00 pm
Westminster Abbey celebrates its musical heritage on Friday 2 July at 7.00 pm with a concert, I was glad, featuring five centuries of music written for the Abbey. The Choir of Westminster Abbey, conducted by James O’Donnell with organist Robert Quinney, will perform in the glorious gothic setting of Westminster Abbey – the scene of the nation’s coronations, royal weddings and funerals. Coronation anthems are a central theme of the evening’s programme which includes Henry Purcell and Hubert Parry’s settings of I was glad, Edward Elgar’s O hearken thou and William Walton’s Coronation Te Deum, composed for the coronation of HM The Queen in 1953. Works by John Sheppard, Robert White, Orlando Gibbons and John Blow also feature, as well as some of the earliest music associated with English coronations: the plainsong Laudes Regiae. The evening will also include the first concert performance of the Bell Mass by acclaimed contemporary composer Julian Anderson, commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster as part of the celebrations to mark the 450th anniversary of the Abbey's Collegiate Charter, granted by Elizabeth I in 1560.
Tickets: £10 - £25
https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
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