Introduced by Richard Osborne.
Grainger
The Immovable Do; Mock Morris ; Handel in the Strand; Irish Tune from County Derry
Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra, conductor Frederick Fennell
9.38 Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor Nash Ensemble
10.18 The Orlando Consort sings music from the 13th-century Worcester Fragments
10.23 Britten A
Midsummer Night's
Dream, Act 1 (excerpt) James Bowman
(countertenor)
Lilian Watson (soprano) Della Jones (mezzo)
Henry Herford (baritone) Trinity Boys' Choir
City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox
10.48 The Hilliard
Ensemble sings music by the shadowy 15th-century English composer Walter Frye.
11.02 Kenneth Leighton
Alleluia Pascha Nostrum
Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Peter Wallfisch (piano)
11.17 Purcell Praise the Lord, 0 My Soul, and All that Is Within Me
Soloists, Choir of New College, Oxford
King's Consort, director Robert King
11.28 Vaughan Williams Symphony No 8 in D minor
Philharmonia, conductor Leonard Slatkin. Discs Producers Nick Morgan and Clive Portbury