At the 1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II, the "Vivat" section was sung as "Vivat Regina Elizabetha". In 2023, for the Coronation of Charles III, the vivat was sung first for the Queen as "Vivat Regina Camilla", then "Vivat Rex Carolus"
A selection from the music for the coronation, recorded for this record in Westminster Abbey in Dec.'93 - Jan.'94
Neary had himself sung as a boy of the Chapel Royal at the Coronation of 2nd June 1953.
The music was chosen or commissioned by a committee of Arnold Bax and Sir Ernest Bullock led by organist and choirmaster William McKie. Among the commissions were O Taste And See and the new setting of the hymn The Old Hundredth by Vaughan Williams, Orb And Sceptre and the setting of the Te Deum by Walton and the Confortare by Dyson. Crown Imperial had been commissioned from Walton by the BBC for the 1937 Coronation of Her Majesty's father, when also a Confortare by Walford Davies was commissioned. Stanford's "Coronation Gloria" had been commissioned for the coronation of George V and was also performed at the coronation of George VI.