DESCRIPTION:
Live BBC radio broadcast from the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, Hertfordshire, 29 March 1995, “featuring a verse anthem with string accompaniment by Purcell to mark the tercentenary of his death” [Radio Times]. The recording presented here is the BBC “safety tape” of the broadcast. Choir of St Albans Cathedral, directed by Barry Rose. Organist: Andrew Parnell.

Introit: Salvator mundi (John Blow)
Responses: William Byrd
Psalms: 142, 143 (Wise, Purcell)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 30, vv l-11
Office Hymn: My God, I love Thee
Canticles: Short Service (Richard Ayleward)
Second Lesson: John 11, vv 28-37
Anthem: I will give thanks unto the Lord* (Henry Purcell)
Anthem: A hymne to God the Father (Pelham Humfrey)
Organ Voluntary: Voluntary in D minor (William Croft)

* soloists: Ian Wicks (tenor), Kenneth Burgess (baritone), Simon Gaunt (bass)