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Composer of the Week: Handel

on BBC Radio 3

4/5. A look at Handel's activities between 1717 and 1719 as composer in residence at Cannons, the palace of the Duke of Chandos in Edgware, where he composed music for private performance and completed one of his finest works of the decade, Acis and Galatea. With Donald Macleod. Chandos Anthem No 6: As Pants the Hart
April Cantelo (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor),
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Andrew Davis (organ), conductor David Willcocks
Oboe Sonata in G Minor, HWV404
Anthony Robson , Orchestra of the Sixteen, conductor Harry Christophers
Air and Variations (Harpsichord Suite in E, Set
No 5) (The Harmonious Blacksmith) Sophie Yates Acis and Galatea, Act 2 (excerpt)
Les Arts Florissants Chorus and Orchestra, conductor William Christie
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Soprano:
Ian Partridge
Unknown:
Andrew Davis
Conductor:
David Willcocks
Unknown:
Anthony Robson
Unknown:
Sophie Yates
Conductor:
William Christie

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