Has anyone heard it, what are your thoughts on it
I think it's by handel if anyones wondering

yes indeed. A great sing - somewhat high for the first soprano.

Liz

Very high, my school choir practised together and when listening to soprano i was amazed the tenor and bass parts are good though

Zadok The Priest - a great, GREAT piece of music. Sang it years ago at college and enjoyed every second of it.

Oooooooooooooh I like this opieces!!!!

yes - have sung in it several times. Probably accompanied it as well.

Yes, it was one of the pieces we did for district choir auditions this year. It's a nice piece but my voice isn't very well suited for it.

I've played this in an arrangement for 15-part recorders (I think it was 15). It was great fun!

Sounds fantastic, Jo.

How many people have performed the other 3 Coronation Anthems? My own favourite is "The King Shall Rejoice".

Cheers

Katyjay

I studied that for AS level!

Oh yeah, I knew I recognised the title!

Zadok's great!

Violins D major scale in parallel 3rds- 3rd movement, ending on Phrygian cadence!!..................................why do I still know that

Great piano version of this in the red book All the Tunes...see Hisaishi thread on viva piano.

I've sung Zadok a few times - the choir's first entry is just magic! I've also sung The King Shall Rejoice once, at the same concert as a Zadok performance. A bit of a Handelfest!

Principal memory of this concert is that there wasn't enough time between the rehearsal and concert to go home and change, so we ended up doing the rehearsal in full regimentals. To occupy the brief period of time we had between rehearsal and concert, my friends decided that it would be a great idea to go to MacDonalds (wasn't my idea, promise!). Anyone else ever been to MacDonalds in the late afternoon wearing dinner jacket or a full-length black dress? Not even the Team Member Of The Month quite knew what to do (still, not as bad as one particular friend who asked for a knife and fork when he went to MacD's for the first time).

hey! i love zadok the priest have been lucky enough to sing the first soprano part and the first trumpet part, on different occasions of course! It was fabuolus! yay!

Yes - have done these too. I think my favourite is My heart is inditing.

Wow, my school choir are doing that as well, thats a really good song as well

i just love it......

i just like the setting of the music....it's so grand...

i did it when i was year 9..

Zadok is fab, have performed with my school (and guests, totalling 120 singers!!!) and then again with another group in Italy, with a full organ and orchestra! Nearly blew my socks off in Florence, although the first time I performed in it back in Belfast as a impressionable 15 year old, the altos were so shocked by the sheer density of the opening choral chord, we didn't come in for two beats!

'Zaa....AAAA DOK THE PRIEST.....

Hehehehe!

The viola part is so boring - quavers the whole way through....but listening to the choir makes up for it

i love this peice and even if i got the lead instrumental part i would quit and join the choir becuse it is an amazing opening for the choir

I loooooooooooooove Zadok!!! It's such a cool piece, and a really good fun sing! I did it a few years back with choir and am hoping philharmonic choir might say they're going to sing it soon!

We sang it with our school choir, another school choir and the rural choirs from around Cumbria in a concert once. It was ace! And i studied The King Shall Rejoice to As level... less said about that the better!

This really shows my age.

Back in the late 60's, when there were only 4 channels on tv (yes, even before channel 5).

OK, just pausing for a moment to allow younger contributors to gather their wits here.

That is 4 channels. Not 40. Not 400. 4.

Anyway, back in the late 60's, when there were only 4 channels on tv, BBC2 screened a series called 'Civilisation'. Ground-breaking stuff back in the days of mostly black-and-white tv (not a word, you lot )

The programme started with the orchestral build-up to the choir bursting out with, "Zadok The Priest".

Unforgettable experience.

Steve

Only 4 channels?!!

*sniggers*

Yes, young lady. 4.

Computers did not exist, except for those housed in military bunkers deep underground. They had less computing power than your watch.

No mobile phones.

Not even hand-held domestic phones. All domestic phones were connected by a wire to a large box fixed to the wall. There was one per house. Two houses often shared one line.

Calls cost a small fortune.

As for forums? They were called, "Recalcitrant groups of youths meeting behind the bike shed".

Bike shed: back then, lots of us rode a bike to school. We parked our bikes in the 'bike shed'. Behind them, we smoked our.....hem hem cough cough 'nough said

None of this will make any sense at all. To experience the depths or how deprived we are just grasp this thought; no mobile phones.

Steve

I couldn't have coped!

You could, of course, because you would not have known any different.

Broadband internet connection allows really quick downloading of data. Just in the last few minutes, a forum contributor has sent me two beautiful photos of his daughter posing at the piano after taking part in a music festival.

Try going back just 3 years from my perspective:
* These pics would have taken about 2 hours to arrive. Even before that, the pics would have been taken on a camera that would have required a photo lab to develop the pics (1-2 weeks) - no affordable digital photography.
* A really slow internet connection would eventually have provided me with an online mapping facility for finding places whilst I was driving my car. The instructions would have got me lost as often as not. Nowadays, I hop in my car, dial up a call centre, give a location and recieive step-by-step directions as I drive.

And that is only 3 years. Imagine 10 years

Steve

Hehe ace!

Before we had freeview we could only get 4 channels. Channel 5 was just black and white dots where I liv(ed)!

There were only three channels in the 60s, Steve. Channel 4 didn't start until the 80s.

And I remember when BBC2 started, but you couldn't receive it if you only had a 405-line set, you had to upgrade to 625 lines. It was very frustrating when watching the cricket or Wimbledon to be told that the match was continuing on BBC2.

It is amazing how we forget things. There was only the one channel BBC when my parents bought their first telly in about 1952. I remember the coming of ITV.


When it started, we could not receive it




That used to drive me incandescent

All this will undoubtedly be read by much younger people than myself, whose reaction will be an uncomprehending "Eh?"

These days, I can watch cricket from South Africa and Australia, as I did over the weekend. Sky brings me about 900 channels.

Most of these are repeat showing channels, so apart from cricket the channels I watch are still mostly BBC 1 & 2 and ITV 1 & 2, with the likes of BBC 3 and More4 starting to get a look in. It remains true that domestic, terrestrial channels are about the only ones making new programmes.

Steve

We could - I rushed home from school and avidly watched the first ever episode of Countdown, which was the topic of conversation in the playground the following day. Oh, the joys of growing up in suburban Surrey in 1982.

We only started receiving Channel 5 a couple of years ago. They didn't transmit the signal from our local transmitter until recently because on a clear day it would interfere with the TV signals in northern France (mind you, having seen some French television, that's not necessarily a bad thing!)

If you thought having to upgrade to 625 lines was a hassle, wait until you have to have a digital TV set (which may be the time we ditch television altogether, given how infrequently we watch ours).

Now, anyone care to get us back on track to Zadok?

Yes where we...Zadok the Priest....lovely stuff

Sang it numerous times at church... a beautiful piece of music....

Though I wouldn't say high for a soprano... just takes a lot of diaphragm effort to control the sustained notes!!!