A collection of modern madrigals, commissioned from the leading composers of the time and first performed on 1 June 1953 on the eve of Her Majesty's Coronation Bliss Aubade
Bax What is it like to be young and fair?
Tippett Dance, clarion air Vaughan Williams Silence and music
Lennox Berkeley Spring, at this hour
Ireland The Hills
Howells Inheritance
Finzi White flowering days Rawsthorne Canzonet Rubbra Salutation BBC SINGERS conducted by SIMON JOLY