This is a straight reproduction, stilted conversations and all, of a programme broadcast on BBC2 in August last year, three days after the Prom it purported to be transmitting had taken place. “Purported”, because two items were inexplicably omitted, resulting in Harry Christophers referring glowingly to a piece that hadn’t been heard. However, the missing works – My heart is inditing and Salve regina – are here, quaintly billed as bonus tracks. The third bonus is an interview with Christophers or, rather, a Christophers monologue: engaging, but with an insensitive background of bleeding Handelian chunks.

And that is the end of my carping. The Sixteen’s account of the Coronation Anthems is exhilarating. First is the atypical Let thy hand be strengthened, which alone of the four dispenses with trumpets and drums. The jewel is “Let justice and judgment”, a minor-key middle section that Christophers takes slowly, as a real prayer. The King shall rejoice also has a movement in the minor: “Thou hast prevented him”, a triple-time number that swings along gloriously. In My heart is inditing, it’s a pity that the camera doesn’t concentrate on the equally glorious trumpet-playing at the end. Last of all comes the simple splendour of Zadok the Priest.

In Handel’s early soprano setting of Salve regina, the organ obbligato is played by Alastair Ross; he is also the accomplished soloist in the Organ Concerto, Op 4 No 4, in its original version from Athalia with an “Alleluia” chorus tacked on. “Myself I shall adore”, the last of three airs from Semele, shows Carolyn Sampson in dazzling command of both music and audience. Magnificent!