Let Us Garlands Bring

As today might be the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, here are Geoffrey Parsons and Janet Baker performing Let Us Garlands Bring, Gerald Finzi's settings of five songs from the plays.

The songs are:

1. Come away death from Twelfth Night
2. Who is Silvia from Two Gentlemen of Verona
3. Fear no more the heat of the Sun from Cymbelaine
4. Oh mistress mine from Twelfth Night
5. It was a lover and his lass from As You Like It

Who wait what?

The BBC's cunning strategy of announcing the identity of the Doctor's new companion during Match of the Day has paid off: my dad, generally more interested in football than SF, phoned with the exciting news that Pearl has got the part!