A music lover, King Charles personally presided over the choice of music at Westminster Abbey.
Rich program.
Between tradition and openness.
Which will bring together the musical pillars of the monarchy (from William Byrd to William Walton, via Handel or Vaughan-Williams) with the voices of modernity.
From Elizabeth II's music teacher, Judith Weir, to star composer of
The Phantom of the Opera
, Andrew Lloyd Webber, via… Gospel antiphons.
Program loaded with symbols, too.
Of the twelve new works commissioned for the occasion, five will be by women.
And to accompany the Coronation Orchestra conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano - and the Westminster choristers joined by the elite reinforcements of John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir, three solo voices: the Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel.
His colleague of Gallo-Jamaican origin Roderick Williams (also an eminent composer of choral music).
And South African Pretty Yende, 38…
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