Linda Ormiston introduces the third of five programmes featuring performances given last week at the St Magnus Festival. Music includes Maxwell Davies 's Hymn to St Magnus performed in the cathedral by mezzo Tamsin Dives, chamber group
Psappha and the Festival Chamber Choir conducted by Etienne Siebens , Maxwell Davies 's arrangements of Bach preludes and fugues performed by Psappha, three preludes and fugues for piano by Shostakovich played by John Lill , and Britten's Les Illuminations performed by the BBC Philharmonic under Martyn Brabbins.