The Triumphs of Oriana

[grandchant]

Just noticed this coming up on TTN:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yqj56

[french frank]

Someone's come up with a nice little haul there. Anniversaries do sometimes have felicitous outcomes!

[Despina dello Stagno]

Anniversaries do sometimes have felicitous outcomes!

if not for the originator. It is exactly 411 years since Elizabeth I failed to make it TTN.

There is also a theory now afoot that Oriana was not Elizabeth, but Anne of Denmark (consort to James I (also died this week - exactly 389 years ago)). Nevertheless the Triumphs are often anthologised but rarely presented together.

[french frank]

if not for the originator. It is exactly 411 years since Elizabeth I failed to make it TTN.

Orl right, then, calendar dates

[rauschwerk]

There is also a theory now afoot that Oriana was not Elizabeth, but Anne of Denmark...

That theory is several decades old but few, I believe, now take it seriously. As for the music, it's a very mixed bag and some numbers are frankly pretty feeble.

[doversoul1]

I call it quaint Very enjoyable for the first thing in the morning, looking at the garden where the birds and the squirrels are getting busy. Music from a different time but the same birds (not sure about the squirrels and definitely not collar doves).