Handel is perhaps the epitomé of the Baroque as a pan-European phenomenon - a composer of German origin (born Georg Friedrich Händel), writing Italian music in the British capital. One of the last acts of King George I before his death in 1727 was to sign an act naturalising Handel (among others) as British citizen, and Handel’s first commission as a British citizen was to compose music for the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline on 11 October 1727. Zadok the Priest and My Heart is Inditing come from this set of majestic Coronation Anthems, and the former has been sung at the coronation of every British monarch since 1727.
Singapore Symphony Chorus
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Sofi Jeannin, conductor
Stefan Kießling, organ/continuo organ
Eudenice Palaruan, Choral Director
Recorded on 6 Oct, 2018 at the Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore.
HANDEL
My heart is Inditing - Coronation Anthem, HWV 261 12’
My heart is inditing of a good matter:
I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.
Kings daughters were among thy honourable women
Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in vesture of gold
and the King shall have pleasure in thy beauty.
Kings shall be thy nursing fathers
and queens thy nursing mothers.