Winners and others at the most musical of Coronations

Never has there been so much new music at a Westminster Coronation, without depleting the essential Pomp and Circumstance.

Here are a few medals and some peculiar omissions.

WINNERS
1 Hubert Parry
The King’s favourite composer opened the show.

2 Richard Strauss
They played, for some reason, the Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare

3 Debbie Wiseman
Composed two Alleluias, one for the church coir, the other for the sensational Ascension Choir, the first gospel group ever heard at a Coronation. .

4 Antonio Pappano
Conducted like a Trojan right through the service, with far less media attention than others.

5 Bryn Terfel and Roderick Williams
Magnificent baritone soloists

6 Pretty Yende’s yellow dress
So brave of her to wear it up on high

7 Georg Frideric Handel
Zadok the Priest never fails to raise the roofbeams.

OTHERS

1 The cello
Charles’s instrument. No time for a solo?

2 Tenors
None. Probably on strike.

3 Benjamin Britten
Not a note by England’s greatest composer

4 Ralph Vaughan Williams
Where was he? After all, he set most of the Anglican liturgy.

5 John Rutter
Employed as an arranger, not as a composer. I guess they ran out of time.