Even for Ralph Vaughan Williams the prospect of two world premieres within 24 hours must have been something of a rarity. Such was the case however on the first two days of June 1953, when his now classic arrangement of TheOld Hundredth Psalm was sung at the Coronation of Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, being preceded the evening before by the premiere of 'Silence and Music', fourth of ten partsongs of A Garland for theQueen, commissioned from leading British compose...

• Arthus BLISS: Aubade
• Arnold BAX: What is it like to be young and fair?
• Michael TIPPETT: Dance, Clarion Air
• Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silence and Music
• Lennox BERKELEY: Spring, at this hour
• John IRELAND: The Hills
• Herbert HOWELLS: Inheritance
• Gerald FINZI: White-flowering days
• Alan RAWSTHORNE: Canzonet
• Edmund RUBBRA: Salutation