Artist in Focus: Emma Kirkby
Brian Kay talks to the early-music soprano and introduces highlights of two London concerts given as part of Radio 3's
Fairest Isle celebrations of British music in 1995: a recital of songs and cantatas by Pepusch, Greene and Handel (including the cantatas Dolce Mio Ben , and Nice Che Fa, ChePensa?) given in the Wigmore Hall with harpsichordist Lars Ulrik
Mortensen; and, from a concert in the Royal College of Music with London
Baroque, Purcell's Music for a While, 0 Let Me Weep and An Evening Hymn,
Couperin's second Leçon de Tenebreand Handel's motet 0 Qualis de Caelo Sonus.