A celebration of the work of three members of the Restoration Chapel Royal: Pelham Humfrey, John Blow and their younger contemporary Henry Purcell. Humfrey’s verse anthem ‘Lift up your heads’, a rousing setting of verses from Psalm 24, and Blow’s stately ‘I was glad’ for choir, strings and trumpets set the scene for Purcell’s peerless ode to music’s patron saint.

Humphrey Lift up your heads
Purcell Three parts upon a ground
Blow I was glad
Purcell Hail Bright Cecilia

Harry Bicket director
Amy Carson soprano
Alexander Chance countertenor
Anthony Gregory tenor