Purcell Tercentenary Concert

21 November 1995 — Westminster Abbey, London

Broadcast: BBC Two and BBC Radio 3 — live

Occasion: 300th anniversary of the death of Henry Purcell

Lighting Director — Peter Greenyer (credit supplied from Will Charles’s recollection)
Generics Board Operator — Will Charles
Conductors — Martin Neary and Sir Andrew Davis

Westminster Abbey illuminated during the 1995 Purcell Tercentenary Concert

Lighting

Peter Greenyer — Lighting Director (recollection; not independently verified for this concert)
Will Charles — Generics Board Operator (recollection)

Music & Presentation

Martin Neary — Conductor
Sir Andrew Davis — Conductor
Nicholas Kenyon — Presenter

Performers

Choir of Westminster Abbey
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
New London Consort
Nash Ensemble
Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, David Wilson-Johnson and Robin Leggate — soloists

Sources: BBC Radio 3 Autumn 1995 programme; contemporary Radio Times listing reproduced by the Archive of Recorded Church Music. Technical lighting credits supplied by Will Charles.