Celestial Art: Edward Higginbottom's 80th Birthday Concert

Instruments of Time & Truth and Oxford Consort of Voices celebrate the 80th birthday of their conductor Edward Higginbottom, for almost four decades Director of Music at New College, Oxford, with an evening of sublime Baroque music. Purcell's glorious Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Hail! Bright Cecilia, falls on the eve of St Cecilia's Day. It is paired with the Dies irae of Michel-Richard de Lalande, court composer to Louis XIV, in the 300th anniversary year of his death, and Handel's majestic coronation anthem My heart is inditing. Performed on period instruments.