Category Archives: Essential 100

1 kings 8:1-9:9 Solomon’s Temple

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Brad

Carillon de Westminster, Opus 54 No.6, is a piece written for organ by French composer and organist Louis Vierne. It constitutes the sixth piece in the third suite of Vierne’s four-suite set 24 pieces de fantaisie, first published in 1927. Carillon de Westminster is in the key of … Continue reading →

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1 Kings 2:1-3:28 – King Solomon 

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Brad

The four anthems The King Shall Rejoice, My Heart is Inditing, Let thy Hand be Strengthened, and Zadok the Priest were composed by George Frideric Handel for the coronation of King George II in 1727, and are thus known as the Coronation Anthems. Zadok the Priest has been sung at every British … Continue reading →

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2 Samuel 11:1 – 12:25 – David and Bathsheba

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Brad

  Romeo and Juliet, is an orchestral work composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is styled an Overture-Fantasy, and is based on Shakespeare’s play of the same name. Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired … Continue reading →

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