Henry Purcell poured some of his greatest music into the anthems he wrote for Charles II’s Chapel Royal, the long-vanished building in old Whitehall Palace.  This programme brings together popular works such as ‘Rejoice in the Lord alway’ (the Bell Anthem) and ‘They that go down to the sea in ships’ (featuring Adrian Peacock as Charles II’s ‘stupendious’ bass John Gostling) with some lesser-known masterpieces.  The programme also includes two of Purcell finest dramatic sacred songs, ‘The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation’ and ‘Saul and the Witch of Endor’.