An all-Britten concert in the year of his 60th birthday to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the church's Consecration PHILIP LANGRIDGE (tenor)
ALAN CIVIL (horn)
ST MARGARET 'S WESTMINSTER
SINGERS
CHORISTERS OF ST MARGARET 'S
WESTMINSTER
Treble soloist NICHOLAS ELDRIDGE RICHARD HICKOX ORCHESTRA leader SIMON STANDAGE , conductor RICHARD HICKOX Part 1
Britten Festival Te Deum in E
Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra
Hymn to St Cecilia
8.20* Tuning the Pulpits
JOHN CHANDOS introduces and presents a selection from the Fast Sermons delivered to the Long Parliament (1641-53) in St Margaret's, Westminster. Parliamentary leaders tuned the pulpits by choosing preachers who could exhort new ideals and a fresh course of action by sermons before crises like the opening of war and the death of Charles I
Readers DOUGLAS BLACKWELL and GABRIEL WOOLF
Producer ROBERT FOX
8.35* St Margaret's, Westminster Part 2
Britten Cantata: Saint Nicolas