The Royal Wedding – Official Album
If you spent this weekend watching your TiVo’s recordings of The Royal Wedding, then you can rest assured – the entire audio program is being released on CD, vinyl, and as a digital download on May 10th, 2011. That’s a pretty impressive, fast turnaround time for something that was watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.
Those of you who are into vinyl may want to splurge – that edition will include a special collector’s booklet.
So what’s going to be on the album? Check out the Royal Wedding track list:
- The Arrival of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh – Fanfare
- The Procession of The Queen – March from The Birds (Parry)
- Prelude on Rhosymedre (Vaughan Williams)
- The Procession of the Bride – Anthem: I Was Glad (Parry)
- Hymn: Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda) (Hughes)
- The Welcome and Introduction
- The Marriage
- The Vows
- Hymn: Love Divine (Blaenwern) (Rowlands)
- The Lesson
- The Anthem: This is the Day Which The Lord Hath Made (Rutter)
- The Address
- The Motet: Ubi Caritas (Mealor)
- The Prayers
- Hymn: Jerusalem (Parry)
- The Blessing
- The National Anthem (Trad.)
- The Signing of the Register – Blest Pair of Sirens (Parry)
- Fanfare: Valiant and Brave (Stubbs)
- The Procession of the Bride and Bridegroom – Crown Imperial (Walton)
- Toccata from Symphonie V (Widor)
NB. Bold titles indicate spoken word