Performance on 3 - Purcell/Handel

Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals. Ian Skelly presents a concert given at Westminster Abbey in London for the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2009, and as part of Radio 3's 2009 anniversary celebrations of Purcell and Handel. James O'Donnell conducts the ensemble St James' Baroque in a selection of odes, hymns and coronation anthems by the two composers. The Choir of Westminster Abbey St James's Baroque James O'Donnell (conductor) Purcell: I was glad; Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; Funeral sentences; My heart is inditing Handel: Coronation Anthems Followed by a focus on music inspired by verse, as part of Radio 3's Poetry Season. THE ENGLISH SONGBOOK EMI 556830 2 Ian Bostridge, tenor Julius Drake, piano Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea; Silent Noon Anon: My love’s an arbutus; The Death of Queen Jane Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci Finzi: The Dance Continued Delius: Twilight Fancies Warlock: Jillian of Berry; Cradle Song