Funeral Anthem for the Queen...

Penso che questa sia la colonna sonora più appropriata per questa serata in cui, di fatto, si chiude un'epoca storica importante e non sempre gloriosa. Un momento di riflessione e di mestizia dedicato agli inglesi e alla loro Regina. 

G. F. Haendel, Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline

• 00:00 Sinfonia
• 02:15 Chorus: The ways of Zion do mourn and she is in bitterness. (Lamentations 1:4); all her people sigh (Lamentations 1:11) and hang down their heads to the ground (Lamentations 2:10).
• 08:33 Chorus: How are the mighty fall’n (Samuel 2, 1:19). She that was great among the nations and princess of the provinces! (Lamentations 1:1).
• 10:38 Chorus: She put on righteousness and it clothed her; her judgment was a robe and a diadem (Job 29:14).
• 13:05 Chorus: When the ear heard her, then it blessed her, and when the eye saw her, it gave witness of her (Job 29:11).
• 17:18 Chorus: How are the mighty fall’n (Samuel 2, 1:19). She that was great, great among the nations, and princess of the provinces! (Lamentations 1:1)
• 18:13 Soli & Chorus: She delivered the poor that cried, the fatherless and him that had none to help him (Job 29:12). Kindness, meekness and comfort were her tongue (Sirach 36:23); if there was any virtue, and if there was any praise, she thought on those things (Philippians 4:8).
• 26:08 Chorus: How are the mighty fall’n (Samuel 2, 1:19). She that was great, great among the nations, and princess of the provinces! (Lamentations 1:1)
• 27:03 Chorus: The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance (Psalms 112:6) and the wise will shine as the brightness of the firmament (Daniel 12:3).
• 30:30 Chorus: Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth evermore (Sirach 44:13).
• 36:25 Chorus: The people will tell of their wisdom and the congregation will shew forth their praise (Sirach 44:14); their reward also is with the Lord and the care of them is with the Most high (Wisdom of Solomon 5:15).
• 39:00 Soli & Chorus: They shall receive a glorious kingdom and a beautiful crown from the Lord’s hand (Wisdom of Solomon 5:16).
• 43:30 Chorus: The merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever on them that fear him and his righteousness on children’s children (Psalm 103:17).

God save the soul of the Queen.