This week for Penny Gore, love looms large with Romeo and Juliet, Mozart concert arias, and Beethoven and the ladies. Plus the wonderful world of the 17th-century trumpet. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Mozart Per Questa Bella Mano , K612 Justino Diaz (bass), English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Ettore Stratta
Stradella Trumpet Sonata in D Crispian Steele -Perkins, Tafelmusik, director Jeanne Lamon Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 3 Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
8.30-10.00: Mozart Ah, Lo Previdi. ... Ah,
T'Invola, K272 Maria Bayo (soprano), Galicia SO, conductor Victor Pablo Perez Delius The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet) Halle Orchestra , conductor Mark Elder Purcell Of Old When Heroes Thought it Base (Yorkshire Feast Song) Michael Chance
(countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor),
Michael George and Stephen Richardson (basses), Stephen Keavey and Michael Harrison (trumpets), the English Concert and Choir/Trevor Pinnock