In the first of two programmes, the Purcell Quartet perform some of the earliest English sonatas, composed by William Young and Henry Butler.
The new instrumental styles were quickly assimilated into
Restoration church music, as shown by a group of anthems recorded by the Choir of New College, Oxford, and London Baroque, directed by Edward Higginbottom : Blow / beheld, and lo a great multitude Humfrey
By the waters of Babylon Purcell
My Beloved Spake