To open the season, and for our first time at the Maison Symphonique, Arion reunites with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal for a splendid, festive program! Andrew McAnerney and Mathieu Lussier present Handel's sparkling Music for the Royal Fireworks, with brilliant brass that can also be heard in the same composer's anthems for the coronation of George II, and in William Boyce's anthem for the coronation of George III.
William Boyce (1711-1779)
The King Shall Rejoice
William Byrd (1540/43-1623)
O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth our Queen
Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
O Lord, grant the King a long life
George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Let Thy Hand be strengthened, HWV 259
The King Shall Rejoice, HWV 260
My Heart is Inditing, HWV 261
