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Gigues; Iberia: Rondes de printemps played by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Conducted by Ernest Ansermet on gramophone records

An exchange of correspondence between King George VI and the Prime Minister before D-Day about the desire they shared to sail with the invasion fleet
A passage from the war memoirs of Sir Winston Churchill
Read by T. S. Gregory

The Amadeus String Quartet
Ilona Eibenschiitz (piano)
Quartet in E Hat, Op. 125... Schubert Piano Quintet in F minor. Op. 34
Brahma

by William Shakespeare with the music of Mendelssohn played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader, David McCallum)
Conducted by John Hollingsworth with a section of the Ipswich Co-operative Girls' Choir
Solo singers: Eileen McLoughlin and Jean England
Production script prepared by Lance Sieveking
Produced by Val Gielgud

Commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain to mark the occasion of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Dedicated bv gracious permission to Her Majesty The Queen
Aubade for Coronation Morning (Henry Reed : Arthur Bliss); What is it like to be young and fair (Clifford Bax : Arnold Bax); Dance, clarion air (Christopher Fry: Michael Tippett); Silence and Music (Ursula Wood : Vaughan Williams); Spring at this hour (Paul Dehn Lennox Berkeley); The Hills (James Kirkup : John Ireland); Inheritance (Walter de la Mare :
Herbert Howells); White flowering days (Edmund Blunden : Gerald Finzi); Canzonet (Louis MacNeice : Alan Rawsthorne); Salutation (Christopher Hassall : Edmund Rubbra)
The Golden Age Singers: Margaret Field-Hyde
Elsie Suddaby , John Wlyhtworth
René Soamee . Maurice Bevan
Augmented Choir of the Cambridge
University Madrigal Society
Conductor. Boris Ord