Fourth Joyful Mystery: Presentation in the Temple

(Vatican Radio) For his musical meditation on the Fourth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary Monsignor Philip Whitmore brings us the setting of the Magnificat antiphon for first Vespers of the feast of the Presentation in the Temple composed by William Byrd, a Catholic composer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

A programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick: