Instruments and Choir of Time and Truth

Handel stands at the apex of composers writing for British coronations. But he is flanked by an array of top talent, including Henry Purcell, John Blow, William Croft and William Boyce.

With performers steeped in the choral tradition of these Isles, 100 years of Coronations surveys the field from 1661 (the Restoration of Charles II) through to 1761 (George III).

The familiar rubs shoulders with the scarcely known in a dazzling pageant of ceremonial music.