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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