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The Coventry Mixtapes
In Tune's specially curated sequence of music, focussing on Coventry, this year鈥檚 UK City of Culture.
Producer Helen Garrison

Cherry Tree Carol
Featuring Jeremy Filsell (organ) who is now Director of Music at St Thomas Church New York, and is originally from Coventry

I remember you
Coventry born country singer Frank Ifield's biggest hit in the 1960s

Victor Hely-Hutchinson: Carol Symphony - 3rd mvt Romance
Famously used as a theme tune for a 大象传媒 Radio drama "Box of Delights", the music is based around two carols - The First Nowell, and The Coventry Carol.

Gustav Holst: In the bleak midwinter
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) and Michael George (baritone)
Choirs of Lichfield and Coventry Cathedrals
大象传媒 Philharmonic conducted by Robin Stapleton.
Coventry came under the diocese of Lichfield until the early 20th Century

Gilbert and Sullivan: Ruddigore - When the night wind howls
Bryn Terfel (bass baritone)
Swedish Radio Choir and Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Daniel, former Coventry Cathedral chorister

St Louis Blues - from the album "Larkin's Jazz", a collection reflecting the poet's passion.
Philip Larkin, born and educated in Coventry, is said to have declared that he could live a week without poetry, but not a day without jazz

Ernest Bloch: Melody for violin and piano
Miriam Kramer (violin)
Simon Over (piano), originally from Coventry

Benjamin Britten: Agnus Dei from the War Requiem, written for the consecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962.
Peter Pears (tenor)
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by the composer