Three English teams (Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea) and a Scottish team (Glasgow Celtic) will play their home matches this week, which coincides with the second day of the group stage. Champions League. It won’t sound good in any of these matches played on English soil competition anthemAs a tribute to the period of mourning declared last Thursday after Queen Elizabeth’s death. What’s unusual about it is, Coronation of Carlos III -To be held at Westminster Abbey on an as yet undisclosed date in a few months- anthem Champions. Or at least something very similar.
What will it actually sound like? ‘Priest Sadok’one of the four hymns George Frideric Handel’s photo. Commissioned in 1727 coronation of king george ii. At that time, Händel had only become a British subject after he had enjoyed enormous prestige throughout Europe thanks to his work at the head of the Royal Academy of Music (the Naturalization Act was one of the last documents signed by King George I before his death). Taking some text as a starting point King James BibleHändel composed the four Coronation Hymns in just three days. Or so it is said.
scented oil
‘Priest Zadok’ is based on the biblical account of Solomon’s proclamation as king of the Israelites by the priest Zadok and the prophet Nathan. Edgar Pacificin the year 973. Since 1727, Händel’s work has accompanied and is often performed by all British monarchs without exception. during the anointing of the new ruler with perfumed oil.
Queen Nearly forty years after ‘Priest Zadok’ was stolen at Elizabeth’s coronation, UEFA commissioned British composer Tony Britten in 1992. Creation of an anthem for the main continental club competition, which is about to be renamed. Champions League. Britten resolved the ballot by going to Händel’s work and making minor changes, including very limited poetic passionate French, German, and English lyrics (“these are the best teams, masters, champions…” and all. So). Britten had an alibi because, during her lifetime, it was Händel herself (she reworked several passages in some of her later works) who explicitly allowed her hymn to be used in all kinds of ceremonial and public acts.
The resemblance between the Champions League anthem and ‘Priest Zadok’ is so great that in 2002, when the choir of Saint Martin in the Fields Academy was invited to participate in the recording of the football anthems (‘World Football Anthems’), it limited itself to interpreting Händel’s original piece. The same that will be played at the coronation of Carlos III, by the way, He is a fan of Burnley FC.is a historic club that has played this season in the Championship, the second category of English football. Far from champions.