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Composer of the Week: Boyce

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

2/5. Donald Macleod discusses Boyce's early career, and explores the colourful and exciting world of 18th-century London. Overture: Peleus and Thetis
Opera Restor'd, director Peter Holman Voluntary in D Simon Preston (organ) By the Waters of Babylon Oxford New College Choir, director Edward Higginbottom
David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (excerpt)
William Purefoy (alto),
Andrew Watts (countertenor), Richard EdgarWilson (tenor), Oxford New College Choir, conductor Graham Lea-Cox
Concerto Grosso in E minor
London Baroque, director Charles Medlam
Repeated on Monday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Director:
Peter Holman
Unknown:
Simon Preston
Director:
Edward Higginbottom
Unknown:
William Purefoy
Unknown:
Andrew Watts
Tenor:
Richard Edgarwilson
Conductor:
Graham Lea-Cox
Director:
Charles Medlam
Source: Radio Times

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