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Morning Performance

on BBC Radio 3

Artist in Focus: Emma Kirkby
Brian Kay talks to the early-music soprano and introduces highlights of two London concerts given as part of Radio 3's
Fairest Isle celebrations of British music in 1995: a recital of songs and cantatas by Pepusch, Greene and Handel (including the cantatas Dolce Mio Ben , and Nice Che Fa, ChePensa?) given in the Wigmore Hall with harpsichordist Lars Ulrik
Mortensen; and, from a concert in the Royal College of Music with London
Baroque, Purcell's Music for a While, 0 Let Me Weep and An Evening Hymn,
Couperin's second Leçon de Tenebreand Handel's motet 0 Qualis de Caelo Sonus.

Contributors

Unknown:
Emma Kirkby
Talks:
Brian Kay
Unknown:
Dolce Mio Ben
Harpsichordist:
Lars Ulrik

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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