In the second programme in a season of Handel oratorios, Brian Wright and Jonathan Keates introduce L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, based on Milton's poems on the humours of man and the delights of the English countryside.
Lorna Anderson , Lynne Dawson and Ruth Holton (sopranos), Paul Agnew (tenor), Michael George (bass-baritone), St James 's Baroque Singers and Players, conductor Ivor Bolton