Jubilee: A Celebration of Royal Music

Release Date: 30th Apr 2012
Catalogue No: ELQ4806025
Label: Eloquence
Length: 74 minutes

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Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV258 'Zadok the Priest'

Work length6:01

English Chamber Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Zadok the Priest

Track length6:01

Excerpt, Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, 1695

Work length6:38

Stephen Cleobury (organ), Jane Ryan (viola da gamba)
Symphoniae Sacrae Chamber Ensemble, Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest

March...Thou Knowest, Lord...Canzona

Track length6:38

Purcell: I was glad when they said unto me, Z19

Work length9:57

John Scott (organ), Paul Esswood (alto), Ian Partridge (tenor), Stafford Dean (bass)
Strings, Choir of St John's College Cambridge
George Guest

Bliss: Antiphonal Fanfare for three brass choirs

Work length1:39

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

Walton: Crown Imperial

Work length9:26

Simon Preston (organ)

Parry: I was glad

Work length5:43

Simon Preston (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
William McKinney

Bax: Fanfare for the Wedding of Princess Elizabeth

Work length1:56

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

Bliss: Welcome the Queen

Work length6:42

London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Arthur Bliss

Walton: Coronation Te Deum

Work length11:03

Ralph Downes (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Salisbury Cathedral Choir, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Chichester Cathedral Choir, London Philharmonic Choir
Sir Georg Solti

Elgar: Imperial March, Op. 32

Work length5:19

Carlo Curley (organ)

Walton: Orb and Sceptre

Work length7:44

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
David Hill

anon.: God Save The Queen

Work length2:42

London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
Benjamin Britten

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The potential of music as a means of adding dignity and grandeur to state occasions has surely been lost on a few rulers in history. Portraits of antique kings and queens are more often admired (or the reverse) for their artistic qualities, as opposed to the enhancement in the status of their subjects they were originally intended to confer. Similarly, the appeal of ceremonial music from former ages is for modern listeners primarily aesthetic.

This 75-minute collection brings together music heard at a staggering variety of British royal occasions. Zadok the Priest has been included in every coronation service held in that building ever since the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline in Westminster Abbey on 11 October 1727. There is music for the coronation of King James II in 1685 (Purcell’s I was glad), and a later setting of the same verses by Parry for the coronation of Edward VII in Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902.

Of course, there’s music for Queen Elizabeth II – Walton’s Coronation Te Deum and Orb and Sceptre for the coronation on 2 June 1953 and Bliss’s march Welcome the Queen, which commemorated the return of the monarch from her Commonwealth tour in 1954.

The British national anthem hardly needs an introduction. Benjamin Britten’s distinctive arrangement was first performed in Leeds on 7 October 1961 and has been heard countless times since.

Jubilee: A Celebration of Royal Music

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