Songs for mixed voices, commissioned from leading British composers to mark the Queen's Coronation, first performed at the Royal Festival Hall on 1 June 1953, at a concert of music for the Eve of Coronation Day.
ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER SINGERS, conductor RICHARD HICKOX , perform the music and ROBIN HOLMES reads the poems. Arthur Bliss Aubade
Arnold Bax What is it like to be young and fair?
Michael Tippett Dance , Clarion Air
Vaughan Williams Silence and Music
Lennox Berkeley Spring, at this hour
John Ireland The
Hills Herbert Howells Inheritance
Gerald Finzi White flowering days
Alan Rawsthorne Canzonet Edmund Rubbra Salutation