Coates: The Three Elizabeths - Suite, conducted by Eric Coates (1944)

Eric Coates: The Three Elizabeths - Suite (1944)
National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eric Coates

Recorded November 15, 1944, in Kingsway Hall, London, on English Decca 78-rpm matrices AR 8859 through AR 8862. Issued in January, 1945, as English Decca K 1109/10 (and in automatic sequence as AK 1109/10). In the USA the records were imported and sold with a US-made album, EDA-8, which is pictured at the beginning of this video.

The "Three Elizabeths" Suite honors three royal personnages named Elizabeth: Queen Elizabeth I; Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI (later to become the Queen Mother); and Princess Elizabeth (later to become Queen Elizabeth II). The three movements are:

1. Elizabeth Tudor - Halycon Days
2. Elizabeth of Glamis - Spring in Forfarshire (at 6:40)
3. Princess Elizabeth - The Youth of Britain March (at 13:18)

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