• The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Warner Classics) on disc may be of distinctly occasional interest. But whatever your republican tendencies, don’t rule out the historic interest of this remastering of the ceremony at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953. It captures a moment in mid-20th-century musical life, featuring composers ignored for much of the time since and now back in the fray: George Dyson, Herbert Howells, Ernest Bullock, Gordon Jacob, as well as William Walton and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
