Musikalische Exequien
The Deller Consort:
April Cantelo (soprano)
Eileen McLoughlin (soprano) Alfred Deller (counter tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor)
Eric Barnes (tenor)
Maurice Bevan (baritone) Norman Platt (baritone)
The London Bach Society
Terence Weil (cello)
Eugene Cruft (double-bass) Arnold Richardson (organ)
Conducted by Paul Steinitz
From the Priory Church of Saint Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield
To be repeated on December 14
This work, printed in Dresden in 1636, has three clearly defined sections. The first is scored for six-part choir and soloists; the second section is a motet for double chorus; and me third makes use of a main chorus and a small ' chorus of angels ' which interrupts the Song of Simeon with a different yet related text Blessed are the dead which die m the Lord.' - D.S.