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The Early Music Show - Purcell's Organ Music

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Purcell Weekend As part of BBC Radio 3's 2009 Purcell celebrations, Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of organ music by Purcell and some of his contemporaries, including voluntaries and fantasias by John Blow, Christopher Gibbons and John Bull, performed by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani on the organ of St John's College Chapel, Oxford, built by Bernard Aubertin. Purcell: Voluntary in C, 717 Lebegue: Phrygian Verse in A John Bull: Fantasia on a theme by Sweelinck, MB4 Segue to John Bull: Fantasia, MB5 Christopher Gibbons: Voluntary for Double Organ (in A*) (No 1) *an incomplete fragment from MS Purcell: Voluntary in G, Z720 Segue to Purcell: Verse in F, Z716 Purcell: Voluntary for ye Double Organ, Z719 John Blow: Voluntary XVIII in D Segue to John Blow: Voluntary VIII in G Charles Racquet: Fantaisie, from Mersenne's Traite de l'harmonie universelle (1636) Purcell: Voluntary on the Hundredth Psalm Tune (in A), Z 721.