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01. "Fanfare" 02. "I was glad" 03. "Behold, O God our defender (Introitus)" 04. "Let my prayer come into thy presence (Gradual)" Messe g-moll (Auszug) 05. "Creed (bearb. von Maurice Jacobson)" 06. "Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (bearb. von Ernest Bullock)" 07. "Zadok the Priest (Kr?nungshymne)" 08. "God save the Queen! (Fanfare)" 09. "Confortare" 10. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect Peace" 11. "God save Queen Elizabeth! (Fanfare mit Orgel)" 12. "All people that on earth do dwell (Old Hundredth) (Offertorium)" 13. "Prayers - Invitation - Absolution - Sursum corda" Messe g-moll (Auszug) 14. "Sanctus" 15. "O taste and see (Kommunionsmotette)" Festal Communion Service B-Dur op. 128 (Auszug) 16. "Gloria - Blessing" 17. "Threefold Amen" 18. "Te Deum (Coronation)" 19. "Fanfare" 20. "Nationalhymne (bearb. von Gordon Jacob)"
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.. Majesty Queen Elizabeth Ii At Westminster Abbey 1953 |
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Description: | This recording of the BBCâ??s broadcast of the coronation service from Westminster Abbey was taken by means of a direct line to Abbey Road Studios in St Johnâ??s Wood, London. The splendid ritual of the coronation rite has offered to composers of succeeding generations an opportunity to provide music of fitting beauty and to the choirs taking part an incentive to excel in presenting music in which Britain has a rich and unique tradition. Some of this music had been heard in earlier coronations, some was composed especially for this occasion.
Old and new were woven into the fabric of the ceremony with great skill, and the recording provides a sound-picture representing some five centuries of the finest of English church music. The Coronation Choir was a large one of over four hundred singers, the voices, with the exception of a few sopranos and contraltos from the Commonwealth, being those of men and boys. Certain famous choirs were present in full force, having a prescriptive right to sing at the coronation. Among these were the choirs of Westminster Abbey, HM Chapel Royal, St Georgeâ??s Chapel, Windsor, and St Paulâ??s Cathedral; the remaining singers were drawn from choirs throughout England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland with a considerable number of â??additionalâ?? altos, tenors, and basses who were well known soloists or who at some time had been members of famous choirs.
As each member of these choirs was thoroughly at home with church music of every degree of difficulty, the resultant tone was of singular beauty: rich, majestic and of great flexibility. The accompaniments were shared by the fine organ of the abbey and a full orchestra made up of eminent soloists and of players nominated from leading orchestras. The special fanfares, composed by Sir Ernest Bullock, were played by massed trumpeters from the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, under their conductor Lt-Col Meredith Roberts MBE MVO. The choral music was conducted by Dr William McKie, organist and choirmaster of Westminster Abbey, assisted by Dr John Dykes Bower and Dr W.H. Harris, and the organ was played by Dr Osborne. H. Peasgood.
The vinyl version is platinum coloured. - .. MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY 1953 |
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