Rutter wrote this setting with clarinet solo of Psalm 27, "The Lord is my light and my salvation", for a friend who had just been diagnosed with AIDS, and was finding the words a comfort. This performance is by the Cherwell Singers, in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford.

This carol was set by Britten in his early cantata "A Boy was Born". Later, after the emotion involved in writing his War Requiem, he took it out in isolation and reworked the setting for a solo voice, which is what you hear here (performed in the University Church of Oxford University). The words are usually associated with the grail legend; but modern scholarship suggests a link with Anne Boleyn, whose badge was a falcon.

This is the chorus "How Happy the Lover", in the form of a passacaglia, from Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur, recorded in The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford in a performance by The Cherwell Singers. The orchestral wind parts are played on the organ.

First recording using a Core-Sound TetraMic and a new, as yet unreleased, audio interface. The Orfeo Trio is Lucy Jeal, violin, Simon Brown, viola and Alexander Somov, 'cello. This was a pre-concert run-through for a small invited audience in a North London church which is shared with a nursery school, hence the occasional small child. The piece is the second movement of Beethoven's Trio in C Minor, Opus 9 No.3. I think it shows off both microphone and interface in a rather good light, as well as the trio.