BBC Radio 3 broadcast Choral Evensong was live from Westminster Abbey on Wednesday 1 October to mark the tercentenary of the death of the composer John Blow (1649-1708), who was Organist of Westminster Abbey from 1668-1679 and 1695-1708.

John Blow

Voluntary in D minor (for organ)

Salvator mundi, salva nos

Lift up your heads, O ye gates

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F

God spake sometime in visions

Chaconne in G (for strings)

The Choir of Westminster Abbey
St James's Baroque
Robert Quinney organ
James O'Donnell director