A concert live from Christ Church in London's
Spitalfields, opening this year's Spitalfield's Festival, with a programme that exploits the spaces and grandeur of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's remarkable baroque church. BBC Singers, conductor
Stephen Cleobury , His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, director Jeremy West (cornett) Schutz Herr , UnserHerrscher, SWV27(Psalm8)
Schein Pavane: In "Amoenitatum
Musicalum Hortulus
Purcell Hear My Prayer, OLord Taverner In Nomine a 4 Holten In Nomine for chorus
G Gabrieli Canzon a 4 (La Spiritata)
8.10Twenty Minutes: Cabinet of Curiosities Built in 1964 to tempt fishermen out of the town's s pubs on a Sunday afternoon, the Sailors' Reading Room in Southwold,
Suffolk, has closed only for Christmas Day ever since. Sarah Lefanu is joined in Southwold by the writer Craig Brown and the reading room's custodian, John Winter.
8.30 Monteverdi Beatus Vir ;Adoramus Te Duddell The Realside
Schutz Wie Lieblich Sind Deine
Wohnungen, SWV29 (Psalm 84); Danket Dem Herrn , SWV45 (Psalm 136)