Chris de Souza introduces the first of four programmes recorded last month at the Radio 3 Early Music Young Artists' Showcase in the Royal Academy of Music. This week, the French trio
Ensemble Amarillis (winners of the 1995 Early Music
Centre International Young Artists' Competition) perform Baroque music for wind and continuo from France and Italy, including Francois Couperin 's Concert royal
No 2 and Corelli s virtuoso sonata La Follia.
Producer Lindsay Kemp