This week Sandy Burnett explores some of the music inspired by the Song of Songs in the Bible. Music includes:
7.00-8.30: Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Brahms Hungarian Dance No 2 Laurent Korcia (violin), Gergana Terziyska (double bass), Cyril Dupuy (cimbalom) Wagner Prelude, Act 1: Lohengrin New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine Cole Porter Solomon Elizabeth Welch (voice), Peter Howard (piano), Bruce Samuels (bass), Michael Keller (bass) Mozart Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K573 Alfred Brendel (piano)
8.30-10.00: Grieg Holberg Suite , Op 40 Bergen PO, conductor Ole Kristian Ruud Handel Solomon , Act I Scene 1
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Paul Agnew
(tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Gabrieli Consort and Players, conductor Paul McCreesh