Royal Music
Music fit for kings, queens, princes and princesses: but what do we mean by royal music?
Royal music throughout the ages. Tom Service asks: what makes it sound royal, and why? And is there really such a thing as a royal sound world?
Royal music doesn鈥檛 have to be heraldic, ranging from the pomp and ceremony of Elgar; to the intimacy of lutenists like Dowland writing in the court of Christian IV in Denmark; to the secret music of the Kyoto imperial court, performed exclusively for royal ears. Composers over the centuries and millennia have written for kings, queens, princes and princesses, at times simultaneously praising and even criticising monarchies from within and without.
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Herbert Howells
Pageantry - suite for brass band
Performer: Gabrieli Players. Performer: Paul McCreesh.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
- SIGCD 569.
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William Byrd
William Byrd: Galliard (Hirsch Lute Book of 1595)
Performer: David Miller.- CHANDOS.
- CHAN 0682.
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William Walton
Crown imperial - coronation march for orchestra
Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- DECCA.
- 470 508-2.
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George Frideric Handel
Zadok the priest - coronation anthem no. 1 HWV.258
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
- 475 6897.
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Edward Elgar
Coronation ode Op.44 vers. 1911
Performer: Royal Military School of Music Band. Performer: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Ledger.- EMI.
- 7 64209 2.
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George Frideric Handel
Zadok the priest - coronation anthem no. 1 HWV.258
Performer: Monteverdi Choir. Performer: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
- 475 6897.
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Tony Britten
Tony Britten: UEFA Champions League
Performer: Tony Britten.- SONY.
- G010004778248Y.
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John Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs [1597]
Performer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- HYPERION.
- CDA 68007.
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Philip Rosseter
Philip Rosseter: Shows and Nightly Revels
Performer: Dowland Consort.- BIS.
- BISCD 451.
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Kyoto Imperial Court Music Orchestra
Trad. Japanese: Etenraku
- LYRICHORD.
- 744457712627.
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Elton John
Elton John: Candle in the Wind (1997)
- MERCURY.
- 568 109-2.
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Ben E. King
Ben E. King: Stand by Me
Performer: Kingdom Choir.- SONY.
- G010004000638Z.
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George Formby
George Formby: Leaning on a Lamppost
- SUPREME MEDIA.
- 887845832559.
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Forbury Consort, I Fagiolini & Robert Hollingworth
Pastyme with good companye (De mon triste deplaisir) for 3 voices
- CANTORIS.
- CRCD 2365.
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Emmanuel Pahud, Trevor Pinnock & Jonathan Manson
Sonata no. 3 in B minor for flute and continuo
- EMI.
- 0 84220 2.
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Carlo Gesualdo
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo for 5 voices [1611b]
Performer: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- NAIVE.
- OP 30238.
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William Byrd
Sing joyfully unto God for 6 voices
Performer: Odyssean Ensemble. Conductor: Colm Carey.- LINN.
- CKD 608.
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William Byrd
Libera me, Domine, et pone me juxta te for 5 voices [1575]
Performer: Cardinall's Musick. Performer: Andrew Carwood.- ASV.
- CD GAU 197.
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John Bennet
All creatures now are merry-minded for 5 voices [from The Triumphs of Oriana, 1601]
Performer: Robert Hollingworth. Performer: I Fagiolini.- CHANDOS.
- CHAN 0682.
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William Byrd
O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth for 6 voices
Performer: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.- Gimell.
- CDGIM011.
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Benjamin Britten
Gloriana - opera Op.53
Performer: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- DECCA.
- 00028947625933.
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Benjamin Britten
Gloriana - opera Op.53
Performer: Josephine Barstow. Performer: Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- DECCA.
- 00028947625933.
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William Walton
Orb and Sceptre coronation march
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- WARNER.
- 190296706189.
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