Music for Two Elizabeths
Gloriana, music for two Elizabeths, on this week's Choral Showcase. For Elizabeth I, music of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis; and for Elizabeth II, whose Platinum Jubilee is celebrated this weekend, music composed for her 1953 coronation by Benjamin Britten and William Walton.
Show Notes
William Byrd: O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth
- The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips, conductor
Thomas Tallis: Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
- The Tallis Scholars; Peter Phillips, conductor
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits
- Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano; Henry Herford, baritone
- Guildford Choral Society
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Hilary Davan Wetton, conductor
Benjamin Britten: Choral Dances from Gloriana
- RIAS Chamber Choir; Justin Doyle, director
William Walton: A Queen's Fanfare/Coronation Te Deum
- The Wallace Collection
- James Vivian, organ
- Polyphony
- Stephen Layton, conductor