Various Artists

Crown & Glory (2CD)

This brand-new double album features music of pomp, pageantry, ceremony and celebration, and is designed to set the mood for this May’s much-anticipated coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla.

Crown and Glory houses 42 tracks – over two and a half hours - of British orchestral, instrumental, and choral music from across four centuries.

Music enjoyed at coronations, jubilees and state occasions sits alongside evergreens of the Great British classical songbook heard throughout the year at annual national events such as the "Last Night of the Proms." Melodies reflecting the close tie between the monarchy and the armed services also feature, as do select songs and tunes beloved by each country of the Union.

TRACK LIST

CD 1 HANDEL: Zadok the Priest (The English Concert / Trevor Pinnock) ELGAR: Land of Hope and Glory (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) PARRY: Jerusalem (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordssworth) ARNE: Rule Britannia (Della Jones; BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, Op 39 (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) HOLST: I Vow To Thee My Country (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) ROEVER, KORB: Highland Cathedral (The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards) COATES: Knightsbridge: March (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks - La Paix; La rejouissance (Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner) TRAD.: All People That On Earth Do Dwell DAVIES: RAF March Past (Central Band of the Royal Air Force) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) BOYCE: The King Shall Rejoice - Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom GOLDMAN: On The Mall (Eastman Wind Ensemble / Frederick Fennell) TRAD.: Scotland the Brave (Bay State Pipes and Drums, Boston Pops Orchestra / John Williams) JONES, JOSHUA, HARPER: We'll Keep A Welcome (Bryn Terfel) CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) TRAD.: Irish Tune from County Derry (Danny Boy) (The Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner) Nation's Pride (The Band of the Coldstream Guards) RICHARDS: God Bless The Prince of Wales (Morriston Orpheus Choir)  CD 2 TRAD.: God Save The King (Freddie De Tomasso) TRAD.: The British Grenadiers (The Band of the Coldstream Guards) HANDEL: Water Music (excerpts) (English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner) WOOD: O Thou the Central Orb (The Sixteen / Harry Christophers) TRAD.: Scottish Medley The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards WALTON: SpitfIre Prelude (Central Band of the Royal Air Force) GOSS: Praise My Soul the King of Heaven (Wallingford Parish Church Choir) ADDISON: Reach for the Sky (Central Band of the Royal Air Force) JOLLY: Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer (Wallingford Parish Church Choir) ARNE, ELGAR: Britannia Salute (Band of HM Royal Marines) WALTON: Orb and Sceptre (Boston Pops Orchestra / John Williams) MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness (Piano Collective) TRAD.: Land of my Fathers (Fron Male Voice Choir) HANDEL: My Heart is Inditing (Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner) RUSSELL: A Life On The Ocean Waves (Band of HM Royal Marines) TRAD.: All Through The Night (Fron Male Voice Choir) WALTON: Crown Imperial (BBC Concert Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth) PARRY: I Was Glad (The Sixteen / Harry Christophers) HANDEL: Hallelujah Chorus (Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner)