BBC Chorus (Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Orchestra (Section A) Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood and Sir George Dyson
Sir George Dyson's new part song 'Motherland' was specially commissioned by the BBC. It is a setting of William Watson's poem 'England and her Colonies', which was written in 1892. The words are singularly appropriate today, invoking the Empire as 'Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need, Perchance may one day call'.

Trumpet voluntary - Purcell, arr. Wood
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Unison song: Motherland - Dyson
(First performance: conducted by the composer) -
ORCHESTRA Fantasia on British sea-songs - arr. Henry 7. Wood
Colonial song - Grainger
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA God save the King - arr. Elgar