Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the festival, including performances from two concerts featuring the festival's resident ensemble, the St James's s
Baroque Players: Monteverdi's powerful Lamento dariannawith soprano
Anna Caterina Antonacci , and Purcell's ode to St Cecilia Welcome to All the Pleasures, with the Choirof Westminster Abbey conducted by James O'Donnell. There is also a chance to hear Banchieri's riotous madrigal comedy La Pazzia Senile performed in St John's, Smith Square, by I Fagiolini, and the extraordinary sound of liturgical chant from 16th- and 17th-century Corsica, sung by Ensemble
Organum undertheir director Marcel Peres.