Gabrieli - Regina caeli for 13-part Trombone Choir Slama Tchaikovsky's Festival Coronation March was

Tchaikovsky's Festival Coronation March was commissioned by the City of Moscow in 1883 for the coronation of Tsar Alexander III and first performed on June 4 of that year

expressive and mournful

while in a grand manner

The soundtrack below is the 1st movement of the work entitled Conflicting Alliances from a studio recording by Mike Hall taken from his new streaming album Hooked On Polyphony

Mark LaFratta has beautifully arranged Three Christmas Motets for Trombone Quartet by Michael Praetorius

Gabrieli - Regina caeli for 13-part Trombone Choir Slama Tchaikovsky's Festival Coronation March wasRegina caeli, Ch. 49 by Giovanni Gabrieli is a sacred 12 part Marian antiphonal choral work primarily sung at Easter. It is part of Gabrieli's Sacrae Symphoniae collection from 1597 in the late Renaissance style. Venice's St. Mark's Basilica served as the inspiration for this series of works by placing chorus and instrumentalists in opposing galleries and giving the audience its first experience of "stereophonic music". Gabrieli's glorious Regina