Week by week for the next six months, music written during successive decades from 1720. Today's programme includes Handel's last oratorio, an opera that dramatically changed French thinking, and Haydn's earliest dated symphony.
Handel Organ Concerto In G minor, Op 7 No 5 - Herbert Tachezi (organ)
Jephtha: Act 2 - Arnold Schoenberg Choir Vienna Concentus Musicus conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
Johann Stamitz Symphony In D, Op 3 No 2 - Academy of Ancient Music directed by Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord)
C. P. E. Bach Sonata No 6 (Essay on the true art of playing keyboard Instruments) - Christopher Hogwood (clavichord)
Rousseau Opera: Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer) - Voltaire College Choir Geneva Collegium Academicum conducted by Philippe Corboz
Haydn Symphony No 37, in C - L'Estro Armonico directed by Derek Solomons (violin)
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