Official Classical Singles Chart such as "Fifty Shades of Grey", "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Man of Steel". In July 2012, a rendition of "Spem in alium" by the Tallis Scholars topped the chart following its usage in "Fifty Shades of Grey". E. L. James, author of the original novel on which the film was based, said that she was delighted that her readers had been introduced to the piece of music, and that it was a "deserved number one". Three weeks later, the London Symphony Orchestra reached number one after their version of "Chariots of Fire" by Vangelis was used in the 2012
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585). Many of Vaughan Williams' works are associated with or inspired by the music of the English Renaissance. In 1906 Vaughan Williams included Tallis's "Third Mode Melody" in the English Hymnal, which he was then editing, as the melody for Joseph Addison's hymn "When Rising from the Bed of Death." The tune is in Double Common Meter (D.C.M. or C.M.D.). The work is scored for an expanded string orchestra divided into three parts: orchestra I, a full-sized string orchestra; orchestra II, a single desk from each section (ideally placed apart from Orchestra I); and a string