The Coronation of King Charles featured some timeless historical past and ceremony – and likewise some fantastic music. A lot of the music, by composers corresponding to William Byrd, George Frideric Handel and Edward Elgar, was acquainted to us from grand state events of the previous. However there have been additionally 12 newly commissioned items by a few of Britain’s best up to date composers.

Who have been the 12 composers who gave us new music for a brand new King?

The 12 composers who wrote music for the Coronation

Andrew Lloyd Webber

A massively well-known and influential musical theatre composer whose finest recognized works embrace The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Jesus Christ Celebrity and Cats, Lloyd Webber composed the anthem ‘O Make a Joyful Noise’ for the Coronation.

‘I had the nice fortune to debate the textual content with His Majesty The King,’ Lloyd Webber reveals. ‘We mentioned the writings of Solomon and I instructed adapting Psalm 98 with its message of “Make A Joyful Noise unto the Lord, the King”. It appears so applicable to the second within the Coronation service.’

Roxanna Panufnik

Roxanna Panufnik is a British composer of Polish heritage. She’s the daughter of the composer and conductor Sir Andrzej Panufnik, whose meticulously deliberate and colourfully orchestrated works usually drew on Polish people music themes.

A prolific composer, Roxanna Panufnik has written music throughout a variety of genres and types together with opera, ballet, music theatre, choral works, chamber compositions and music for movie and tv.

Panufnik’s contribution to the Coronation was the Sanctus – the fourth a part of the Mass.

Roderick Williams

Williams is a baritone and composer who had the excellence of each composing for and performing on the Coronation. He wrote, together with fellow composers Nigel Hess and Shirley J. Thompson, a chunk known as ‘Be Thou My Imaginative and prescient: Triptych for Orchestra’ for the large day.

Roderick Williams is understood for the sophistication of his voice, the intelligence of his interpretations, the breadth of the repertoire he takes on and his infectious enthusiasm for all times and for every thing he does.

Shirley J. Thompson OBE

Shirley has additionally contributed, like Roderick above and Nigel beneath, to the piece ‘Be Thou My Imaginative and prescient: Triptych for Orchestra’, for Charles’s Coronation.

Thompson is an English composer, conductor, and violinist of Jamaican descent.

She has composed music throughout a variety of types and ensembles. Her output contains symphonies, concertos, ballets and operas: she has additionally written music for TV, movie, and theatre.

Nigel Hess

Nigel is the third of the trio of composers who created ‘Be Thou My Imaginative and prescient: Triptych for Orchestra’.

Somerset-born composer, Hess is finest recognized for his tv, theatre and movie work. He has written music for the 2004 movie Women in Lavender, in addition to TV productions corresponding to Simply William and Vainness Honest – and plenty of scores for Royal Shakespeare Firm productions.

He is additionally the good nephew of the well-known pianist Myra Hess.

Iain Farrington

A pianist, organist, composer and arranger, Farrington has already given us two much-loved items of music.

For the First Night time of the Proms in 2020, and for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s start, Iain composed a large-scale orchestral work, Beethoveniana. A six-minute piece combining themes and motifs from all 9 Beethoven symphonies, it was carried out by all 5 BBC orchestras and the BBC Singers, with an accompanying movie.

Then there was A Social gathering with Auntie, an uptempo, jazz-inspired piece that Iain wrote for the BBC’s centenary celebrations. The piece options numerous musical ‘quotes’ from well-known BBC tv and radio theme tunes, throughout the genres of comedy, information, sport and drama, which get mixed and remodeled in surprising methods.

For the Coronation, Farrington composed an association of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, heard because the King and Queen left Westminster Abbey.

Patrick Doyle

An Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated composer, Patrick Doyle has scored many acclaimed movies, amongst them Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireplace, Homicide On The Orient Specific, Gosford Park, Courageous, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and plenty of extra.

Doyle composed the King Charles III Coronation March, which was the ultimate piece of music heard earlier than the King and Queen entered Westminster Abbey.

Debbie Wiseman

A British composer for movie and tv, Debbie Wiseman OBE can be a conductor and a radio and tv presenter. Her many movie and TV composing credit embrace Wilde, Tom’s Midnight Backyard, Wolf Corridor, Choose John Deed and The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.

Debbie has intensive expertise of writing for Royal events. Memorably, she was commissioned to write down a chunk of music for the official protection of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

The piece, entitled ‘Elizabeth Remembered’, was carried out by the BBC Live performance Orchestra with Debbie conducting. It was launched as a single by Silva Display Information, with all proceeds going to The Queen’s Commonwealth Belief.

She additionally wrote music for Her Late Majesty’s Diamond and Platinum Jubilees, in addition to her ninetieth Birthday Celebrations at Windsor Fortress.

For the Coronation, Debbie composed a two-part piece, ‘Alleluia (O Clap your Palms)’ and ‘Alleluia (O Sing Praises)’, for the Coronation. ‘O Clap Your Palms’ was sung by the expanded Westminster Abbey Choir, whereas ‘O Sing Praises’ was carried out by The Ascension Choir, the primary gospel choir to sing at a Coronation.

Judith Weir

The Scottish composer Judith Weir is the present Grasp of the King’s Music, so her title can have been one of many first on the record to compose for the Coronation!

And certainly, hers was the primary piece of recent music to be heard, a brief overture known as ‘Brighter Visions Shine Afar’ for the pre-service efficiency.

‘Brighter Visions Shine Afar’ was the primary efficiency by the Coronation Orchestra, which consisted of musicians from the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera Home Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and others, performed by Sir Antonio Pappano.

Sarah Class

An Emmy-nominated composer and singer-songwriter, Sarah Class has scored documentaries, pure historical past TV movies and different tv tasks. These embrace ‘Africa’, the six-part BBC TV collection narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

For the Coronation, Sarah composed ‘Sacred Fireplace’, which makes use of music and Biblical imagery to evoke a bridge between the angelic and human realms. ‘Sacred Fireplace’ was sung by the acclaimed South African soprano Fairly Yende.

Paul Mealor

Paul Mealor is a Welsh composer who has written an in depth output of music, a lot of it for accompanied and unaccompanied refrain. Nevertheless, Paul has additionally composed an opera, three symphonies, concerti and chamber music.

Paul’s contribution to the Coronation is especially fascinating because it was the first-ever Welsh-language piece to be carried out at a British coronation. It was a setting of the Kyrie eleison, the primary a part of the normal Mass (or Mass Strange), and was carried out by bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel and the Choir of Westminster Abbey.

Paul additionally options in our characteristic on finest Welsh composers.

Tarik O’Regan

A London-born, San Francisco-based composer, Tarik O’Regan (pictured high) wrote a setting of one other a part of the Mass, the Agnus Dei, for the Coronation.

O’Regan grew up predominantly in Croydon, South London, spending a few of his childhood in Morocco, the place his mom was born, and in Algeria. A lot of the composer’s latest work investigates and attracts on his twin Arab and Irish heritages.

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