Purcell: Suite from The Fairy Queen
Bach: Contrapunctus XIV from Art of Fugue
Purcell: Hear my Prayer
Purcell: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
Handel: Coronation Anthem: My Heart is Inditing
Bach: Suite No 3
Handel: Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest

Richard Egarr: conductor/harpsichord/organ; SCO Chorus

Handel – ever the master dramatist – created one of the iconic moments in all music when he allowed a long slow build-up of chords to grow and grow over a pulsing bass line until it bursts into the radiant shout of Zadok the Priest. That’s the climax of this sumptuous concert of Baroque masters bringing together some of the greatest musical minds of the age into a rich sequence of delights.

Richard Egarr: ‘What a firecracker he is. Showman, raconteur, wit, outrageous entertainer, dynamo and spontaneous energiser of music: he does the lot, with style’ (The Herald)

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© Marco Borggreve