Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Series of highlights from the 2008 St Magnus Festival in Orkney. With a concert recorded in St Magnus Cathedral, featuring music spanning seven centuries of the French choral tradition, including the first cyclic setting of the Mass written by a single composer and Poulenc's hymn to freedom from occupation in France. Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame Durufle: Motets sur un theme Gregorien Messiaen: O sacrum convivium! Perotin: Viderunt omnes Poulenc: La figure humaine Tenebrae Nigel Short (conductor).