Glorious Majesty: Music For English Kings & Queens

Composer kings and musical monarchs from Henry VIII to Victoria and beyond have played a considerable part in shaping Britan's cultural legacy. Glorious Majesty is a 3-CD collection of classical music written for English Kings and Queens through the ages. The set includes the much-loved classics Handel's Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks, Parry's I was glad, Elgar's Coronation March, Walton's Crown Imperial and Orb and Scepter, and not forgetting Elgar's arrangement of the National Anthem. Also featured in Glorious Majesty is William Byrd's sublime six-voiced anthem, O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen. It has been suggested that piece was designed to attract the monarch's support and secure a place for tis composer in the ranks of the Chapel Royal. Vaughan Williams' exquisite miniature O taste and see, found in CD-3, was in no doubt commissioned for and first heard at the present queen's coronation at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953. CD-1 concludes with Henry Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary. The composition, memorably recycled by Stanley Kubrick in his film A clockwork Orange, echoed the heavy atmosphere of mourning that settled over the state funeral of the genui9nely popular monarch. Mary's valedictory music, first performed by Westminster Abbey in March 1695, was heard again later that year when I accompanied Purcell's own funeral.

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Handel, George Frideric : Coronation Anthem

Performers: Alastair Ross (Harpsichord); Benjamin Bayl (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK)
Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Choral
Written: 1727

Handel, George Frideric : Alleluia

Performers: Benjamin Bayl (Organ); Alastair Ross (Harpsichord)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK)
Running Time: 7 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1727

Handel, George Frideric : The King Shall Rejoice, coronation anthem no 2 for chorus & orchestra, HWV 260

Performers: Benjamin Bayl (Organ); Alastair Ross (Harpsichord)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK)
Running Time: 8 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1727

Handel, George Frideric : Coronation Anthems (4)

Performers: Alastair Ross (Harpsichord); Benjamin Bayl (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK)
Running Time: 10 min. 52 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1727

Byrd, William : O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth, anthem for 6 voices (SAATTB)

Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral

Purcell, Henry : Bid the virtues

Performers: Christopher Hogwood (Harpsichord); Christopher Hogwood (Organ); Oliver Brookes (Descant)
Conductor: David Munrow
Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London
Running Time: 15 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1694

Purcell, Henry : Music on the Death of Queen Mary (Funeral Sentences / The Queen's Epicedium)

Performers: Stephen Saunders (Flatt Trumpet); David Blackadder (Flatt Trumpet); Philip Bainbridge (Flatt Trumpet); Susan Addison (Flatt Trumpet)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Running Time: 4 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1695

Purcell, Henry : Thou knowest, Lord, Z. 58c

Performers: Philip Bainbridge (Flatt Trumpet); David Blackadder (Flatt Trumpet); Susan Addison (Flatt Trumpet); Stephen Saunders (Flatt Trumpet)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Running Time: 2 min. 33 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Form: Choral
Written: 1695

Handel, George Frideric : Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74

Performers: Robin Blaze (Countertenor); Daniel Hyde (Organ); Alastair Ross (Harpsichord); David Blackadder (Trumpet)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music (UK)
Running Time: 17 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1713

Handel, George Frideric : Handel - Bourée

Conductor: Roger Norrington
Running Time: 13 min. 53 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1749

Elgar, Edward : Coronation Ode ("Land of Hope and Glory"), for soloists, chorus & orchestra, Op. 44

Performers: Stephen Roberts (Horn); Richard Morton (Tenor); Felicity Lott
Conductor: Philip Ledger
Running Time: 30 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1901-1902

Elgar, Edward : Imperial March, Op. 32

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Running Time: 4 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: March
Written: 1897

Elgar, Edward : O Hearken Thou, offertory for chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 64

Conductor: Richard Hickox
Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1911

Elgar, Edward : Coronation March, for orchestra, Op. 65

Performer: Noel Rawsthorne (Organ)
Conductor: Charles Groves
Running Time: 10 min. 46 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: March
Written: 1911

Elgar, Edward : Nursery Suite :: no 4. The Sad Doll

Conductor: Charles Groves
Running Time: 1 min. 52 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1930

Parry, Charles Hubert : I was glad

Conductor: Philip Ledger
Running Time: 6 min. 47 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1902

Walton, William : Coronation March "Crown Imperial"

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Running Time: 8 min. 33 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: March
Written: 1937-1963

Walton, William : Coronation Te Deum, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra

Performer: Francis Grier (Organ)
Conductor: Louis Frémaux
Running Time: 9 min. 20 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Choral
Written: 1952-1953

Walton, William : Coronation March "Orb and Sceptre"

Conductor: Adrian Boult
Running Time: 6 min. 49 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: March
Written: 1952-1953

Vaughan Williams, Ralph : O taste and see

Performer: Richard Seal (Organ)
Conductor: John Birch
Running Time: 1 min. 42 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1952

Bourgeois, Louis : All People That on Earth Do Dwell

Performer: Benjamin Bayl (Organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Running Time: 4 min. 56 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Choral

Britten, Benjamin : Jubilate Deo

Performer: James Lancelot (Organ)
Conductor: Philip Ledger
Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1961

Britten, Benjamin : Gloriana, Op. 53a :: 1. Tournament

Conductor: Uri Segal
Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1953

Britten, Benjamin : Gloriana, Op. 53a :: 3. Courtly Dances

Conductor: Uri Segal
Running Time: 9 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Opera/Operetta
Written: 1953

Anonymous : God Save the Queen (National Anthem, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland)

Conductor: Philip Ledger
Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Choral
Written: 1740

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