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Our next series Handel Coronation celebrates the anthems composed by George Frideric Handel to commemorate the coronation of George II in 1727, and every British Royal since. This video contains footage of the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. At 5’15” in the clip you can hear Zadok the Priest being performed.

Zadok the Priest is the most popular of the four coronation anthems composed by Handel however The King Shall Rejoice will also be performed in this series.