Samuel Sebastian Wesley , who died 100 years ago this month, was perhaps the greatest composer of English church music since Purcell.
Hugh Keyte talks about Wesley's celebrated anthem The
Wilderness, and about the Gresham Prize Medal for church music, which it failed to win in 1833. Musical illustrations recorded in St Augustine's Church, Kilburn, by the BBC SINGERS with STEPHEN CLEOBURY (organ) conductor JOHN POOLE
(Centenary Concert: 8 May)