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Morning Performance: Artist in Focus: James Bowman

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James Bowman's long career in Handelian roles has done much to bring about the acceptance of the countertenor voice in Baroque opera today. Handel's contemporary, Bach, provides the solo singer with some of the greatest challenges in performance. Brian Kay talks to James Bowman about these two giants of the Baroque period and introduces music, including excerpts from Handel's Giustino recorded at Sadler's
Wells with the Handel Opera Orchestra, and Bach's Cantata No 169 with Franz Bruggen and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

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James Bowman
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Brian Kay
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Franz Bruggen
Source: Radio Times

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