As a further stage of the reordering of the Society’s edition of Purcell’s anthems, following on from Volume 29, the nine items in Volume 13 span the whole of the composer’s output of symphony anthems. It contains his first two works in the genre, My beloved spake (both the original and the revised version being presented in full) and Behold, now praise the Lord; three two-violin anthems from the mid-1680s, They that go down to the sea in ships, I will give thanks unto the Lord, and O Lord, gran...