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Fairest Isle: Composer of the Week: Handel

BBC Radio 3
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Simon Heighes explores some of the music Handel wrote for the Anglican church.
Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest
Quiristers of Winchester College
Choir of New College, Oxford
King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Utrecht Te Deum
Soloists
Choir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston
Chandos Anthem No 5:
I will magnify Thee
Lynne Dawson (soprano) Ian Partridge (tenor) Sixteen Choir and Orchestra, conductor Harry Christophers

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Heighes
Conductor:
Simon Preston
Soprano:
Lynne Dawson
Tenor:
Ian Partridge
Conductor:
Harry Christophers
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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