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Radio 3 at the Summer Festivals.

Ian Skelly presents a concert given at Westminster Abbey in London for the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2009, and as part of Radio 3's 2009 anniversary celebrations of Purcell and Handel. James O'Donnell conducts the ensemble St James' Baroque in a selection of odes, hymns and coronation anthems by the two composers.

The Choir of Westminster Abbey
St James's Baroque
James O'Donnell (conductor)

Purcell: I was glad; Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; Funeral sentences; My heart is inditing
Handel: Coronation Anthems

Followed by a focus on music inspired by verse, as part of Radio 3's Poetry Season.

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Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea; Silent Noon
Anon: My love鈥檚 an arbutus; The Death of Queen Jane
Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Finzi: The Dance Continued
Delius: Twilight Fancies
Warlock: Jillian of Berry; Cradle Song