Never previously published, though surviving in no fewer than five manuscript copies, Giovanni Battista Draghi’s A Song for St Cecilia’s Day of 1687 impressed his contemporaries, and merits admiration from modern audiences for its intrinsic musical qualities and as a crucial reference point for English music of the period. It is by far the largest of Draghi’s surviving works; its rich Italianate scoring includes a pair of trumpets (their first known appearance in an English choral work), and fea...