On 5 July 2023, Their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla are offered with the Royal Honours of Scotland. Successfully, this can be a second, Scottish Coronation.

Is there a Coronation in Scotland?

The service, held in St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, and has centuries of historical past behind it. It dates again, in truth, to 1633, when King Charles I used to be given a Scottish coronation in addition to the normal Westminster Abbey ceremony. This was an indication that the King reigned over Scotland, in addition to England.

Is the Scottish Coronation just like the Westminster Abbey ceremony?

There are fairly a couple of similarities between the 2 Coronations.

As at Westminster, for instance, there will probably be a pre-service procession. This can encompass a Folks’s Procession, and a Royal Procession, through which you will see the pipe and drums bands and the Family Cavalry. Then comes the coronation itself, formally named a Nationwide Service of Thanksgiving; and, lastly, a Gun Salute on the finish of the day’s occasions.

The Nationwide Service of Thanksgiving will function music by a raft of well-known Scottish performers together with violinist Nicola Benedetti and classical-crossover duo The Ayoub Sisters.

And, simply as he did for his Westminster Coronation, Charles – a famous lover of classical music – has commissioned three model new items of music to be carried out on the day.

Who’s acting at Charles’s Scottish Coronation?

Performers embrace:

• Trumpeter Aaron Azunda Akugbo
• The Ayoub Sisters – violinist Laura Ayoub / pianist Sarah Ayoub
• Violinist Nicola Benedetti
• Mezzo soprano Karen Cargill
• Organist Jordan English
• Accordionist Ryan Corbett
• Singers Pleasure Dunlop and Robert Lovie
• Michael Harris (Conductor, St Giles’ Cathedral)
• Mark Evans (Conductor, Nationwide Youth Choir of Scotland)
• Michael Bawtree (Conductor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)

What music will probably be performed earlier than the service at Charles’s Scottish Coronation?

Organ
Walter Alcock: Introduction and Passacaglia

The Choir of St Giles’ Cathedral
Handel: ‘The King shall Rejoice’
Judith Weir: ‘Drop down, ye heavens, from above’
Cecilia McDowall: O sing unto the Lord

Organ
James MacMillan: ‘White Notice Paraphrase’

The Honours of Scotland Ensemble
Hamish MacCunn: ‘Highland Reminiscences: By the Burnside’

The Ayoub Sisters
Trad.: Melodies from Scotland

The Honours of Scotland Ensemble
Errollyn Wallen: ‘Images 1’

Karen Cargill & The Honours of Scotland Ensemble
Hugh S. Roberton, arr. John Frederick Hudson: ‘All within the April Night’

Aaron Akugbo (Trumpet) & Organ
Henry Purcell: ‘Trumpet Tune’

Nationwide Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir
Trad, arr. David Willcocks: ‘Afton Water’ (Robert Burns)
Trad, arr. Vaughan Williams: ‘Ca’ the yowes’ (Robert Burns)

Nicola Benedetti & The Honours of Scotland Ensemble
Peter Maxwell Davies: ‘Farewell to Stromness’

Ryan Corbett (Accordion)
Phil Cunningham: ‘Loch Katrine’s Woman’

Robert Lovie, Ryan Corbett & The Honours of Scotland Ensemble
Dougie MacLean: ‘Caledonia’

The Honours of Scotland Ensemble
Jay Capperauld: ‘Schiehallion’

Organ
William McKie: ‘Romance’

What music will probably be performed through the Scottish Coronation service?

First we’ll hear Balmoral Thrives, a brand new work composed work for The State Trumpeters of the Family Calvary by composer Paul Mealor, who additionally wrote a chunk for Charles’s Westminster Coronation. Paul’s piece for the Coronation was the first-ever Welsh language efficiency at a British Coronation, and it was sung by the good Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.

Subsequent, after a studying from the Outdated Testomony by Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf, we are going to hear one other Paul Mealor composition: a musical setting of the Gaelic Psalm And I Shall Dwell in God’s Home, sung by Scottish broadcaster and singer Pleasure Dunlop.

The following musical merchandise will probably be a efficiency of ‘Soay’, a standard Scottish tune organized by Rebecca Dale and performed on the violin by Nicola Benedetti.

The final model new fee that you’re going to hear is A Music of Thanksgiving and Dedication by composer Joanna Gill. This will probably be carried out by Karen Cargill, a Scottish mezzo-soprano and Patron of the Nationwide Youth Choir of Scotland Nationwide Women’ Choir. Karen will probably be accompanied by The Ayoub Sisters.

Lastly, we are going to hear Ye banks and braes, a standard music with phrases by Robert Burns, organized by John Kitchen, and carried out by the Nationwide Youth Choir of Scotland Chamber Choir and conductor Mark Evans.

What music will probably be performed after the Scottish Coronation service?

Because the Coronation service finishes, you will hear a Recessional performed by the Honours of Scotland Ensemble and the Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Power. That will probably be adopted by one other Paul Mealor composition, a march entitled The Name of Lochnagar. Lastly, the organ will play out the ceremony with Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4.

Can I watch the Scottish Coronation on TV?

Sure. Charles and Camilla’s Scottish Coronation will probably be broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday, 5 July from 1.30pm till 3.45pm. The programme will probably be offered by Sally Magnusson and James Naughtie.

Pic: Dan Marsh