Next followed an organ commission played by the assistant organist, ‘Voices of the World’, combining traditional melodies from the Commonwealth. William Byrd ‘O Lord, Make Thy Servant Charles’, sung by The Sixteen Read more: Soprano sings King’s favourite hymn ‘Be Thou my Vision’ in historic chapel Nigel Hess, Roderick Williams, Shirley J Thompson: ‘Be Thou my Vision - Triptych for Orchestra’.Their individual musical responses to the Irish hymn ‘ Be Thou my Vision’, including a musical cryptogram of His Majesty’s name, were woven together into a single work: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleevesīased on one of His Majesty’s favourite hymns, this next commission came from a trio of composers, Hess, Williams and Thompson.South African soprano Pretty Yende stepped forward to sing a new commission:
Sir Karl Jenkins: ‘Tros y Garreg’ (‘Crossing the Stone’).The orchestra was joined by Royal harpist Alis Huws for a new arrangement of a Welsh folk song set by Sir Karl Jenkins, commissioned by the then Prince of Wales over two decades ago: Bryn Terfel sings at Westminster Abbey coronation
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