Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

1PM, RADIO 3

William Byrd wrote his plaintive setting of Psalm 21 for Elizabeth I, and the work was widely performed during the 2012 Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Elizabeth II. The anthem – which begins ‘O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth our Queen, to rejoice in thy strength; give her her heart’s desire, and deny not the request of her lips’ – will open