The perfect Classical Jubilee mixtape
Episode m0017m78, broadcast at Thursday 2nd June 2022, 7:00pm.
“A musical mix to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee including music by Handel, William Walton and Orlando Gibbons, favourites from the Queen's 1953 Coronation. We'll also hear excerpts from Malcolm Arnold's Homage to the Queen ballet suite and Britten's Gloriana opera, both commissioned in honour of the Queen's Coronation. A few years ago the Queen was asked about her favourite pieces of music. Fred Astaire's Cheek to Cheek was one of her choices and she also enjoys music by Duke Ellington - after meeting Ellington in 1958, Ellington outlined the movements of his Queen's Suite. He sent it privately to the Queen and it was only issued commercially after his death. Produced by Calantha Bonnissent”
Track listing
- 0:15 – Zadok the priest HWV.258 (track , Handel: Dixit Dominus, Zadok the Priest, Ode for Queen Anne: Apollo's Fire, Sorr)
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Apollo’s Fire
- Director Jeannette Sorrell
- Ensemble Apollo's Singers
- 5:18 – O clap your hands; God is gone up (track , Voces 8: A Choral Taspestry)
- Choir VOCES8
- Composer Orlando Gibbons
- 9:02 – Homage to the Queen Suite, Op. 42 - Prelude and Opening Scene
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Conductor Rumon Gamba
- Composer Malcolm Arnold
- 11:44 – The Single Petal of a Rose (track 005, Duke Ellington: The Ellington Suites)
- Performer Duke Ellington
- Ensemble Duke Ellington Orchestra
- 15:44 – O Lord, make they servant Elizabeth
- Composer William Byrd
- Choir Queen's Six
- 18:38 – Courtly Dances: March & Coranto (Gloriana Suite Op.53a) (track 3, Benjamin Britten: Works for Orchestra)
- Conductor Edward Gardner
- Orchestra BBC Philharmonic
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- 20:33 – Cheek to Cheek
- Composer Irving Berlin
- Singer Fred Astaire
- Orchestra Leo Reisman & His Orchestra
- 23:50 – Crown Imperial (track 1, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live)
- Composer William Walton
- Ensemble Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
- Music Arranger Joseph Kreines
- Conductor Jay Friedman