BBC Singers
Conducted by Cyril Gell Charles Spinks (organ)
The London Consort of Viols:
Harry Danks (treble viol)
Stanley Wootton (treble viol)
Jacqueline Townshend (tenor viol)
Desmond Dupr é (tenor viol)
Henry Revell (bass viol)
Pavan and Almain, for five viols
Singers:
And the king was moved: Contristatus est rex David; Cantate Domino, a 6; Lagrime, a 4; Duo seraphim; Jesu dulcis memoria, a 5 From St. Thomas's, Regent Street, London. (The viol music is recorded) Until recently it was thought that Deiriilg (c. 1580-1630) began his musical studies in Italy. Peter Platt has now assembled musical and documentary evidence to show that this theory is untenable. The works to be heard in this programme have been chosen to illustrate a new and more rational biographical approach.