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'Tis Nature's Voice

The Festival's annual visit to Westminster Abbey offers a chance to hear two resplendent odes by its former organist Henry Purcell, including the popular Ode for St Cecilia's Day, which explores the natural origins of music and musical instruments and includes the famously florid aria that gives this year's Festival its title. My beloved spake is a church anthem whose beautifully poetic Biblical text welcomes Spring, when 'the time of the singing of birds is come'.

'James O'Donnell's restrained and precise conducting was exemplary, with perfect control of the sound in the vast acoustic.'
Early Music Review

Tickets £40*, £30, £25, £18 & £15 (restricted view), £10 (Abbey view only)
* very limited availability
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