Sean Rafferty listens to music from the film Elizabeth, which opens today with Cate Blanchett in the role of the remarkable Tudor monarch, and from ENO's production of Donizetti's Mary Stuart. He also finds out what kind of music the real Elizabeth and Mary would have known. Other music includes works by Britten and Bach and at about 6.45
Vaughan Williams 's Five Variants of "Dives and Lazarus" played by the English String Orchestra, conductor William Boughton.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY