The choir and musicians will join forces again for Monteverdi's Beatus Vir and Purcell's opulent My Heart is
Inditing, written for the coronation of James II in 1685.
The evening also brings together music with a royal theme, including Handel's coronation anthem My Heart is
Inditing, as well as Parry's I Was Glad and Blest Pair of Sirens, which was sung at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Laughing to yourself, and writing, Some right merry thought
inditing, Balancing with swinging feet.
In a court document from 1839, William Barzey's name appears at the top of a charge sheet,
inditing him in connection with the riots.
James Buchanan, The British Grammar: or, Essay, in four parts, Towards Speaking and Writing the English Language Grammatically, and
Inditing Elegantly (London, 1762) xiv.
Three Purcell anthems Rejoice in the Lord Always, My Beloved Spake and My Heart is
Inditing were rather mixed in delivery, with solo groups puny at times in projection and timbre, but with crisp, thrilling diction from the sonorous full chorus.
Topping the bill is the psalm setting Dixit Dominus, followed by Let God Arise - one of the 12 Chandos anthems - and ending with those anthems Handel composed for the 1727 coronation of George II, the ever-popular Zadok the Priest, The King Shall Rejoice and My Heart is
Inditing.