Poster of Cast and Crew in The Birth Of British Music - Season 1 - Episode 2 - Handel - The Conquering Hero

The Birth Of British Music - Season 1 - Handel - The Conquering Hero (Episode 2)

Plot: In the second of four programmes, conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the glorious music of Handel, who made his home in Britain and became a celebrity and national icon in the process. Millions across the world heard Handel's 'Zadok the Priest' when Elizabeth II was crowned Queen at Westminster Abbey in 1953, but he was immensely popular in his own lifetime too, as his memorial in Westminster Abbey shows
Episode Aired On:
Saturday, May 16 2009
15 years ago