"Editor's choice: On his tireless voyage of ceremonial and liturgical reconstruction, Paul McCreesh's 20th-century coronation anthology is arguably his most ambitious and intricate to date ... Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale's compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind. Most impressive, perhaps, is how extremes of unalloyed opulence sit so movingly alongside intimate supplication ... One can imagine the virtuosity required by every contributor, at every turn, to make this a reality, let alone a dazzling triumph".