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Petroc Trelawny i ntrod uces tonight's s concert, live from Bath Abbey. Robert King and The King's Consort present a programme of music by Purcell, including his only real opera, recounting the ill-fated love story of proud Queen Dido and foolish Prince Aeneas.
Peter Nardone (countertenor), Rogers
Covey-Crump (tenor), Robert Evans (bass), Charles Pott (bass), The King's Consort, conducted by Robert King
Purcell Birthday Ode for Mary II: Celebrate This Festival
8.30 Twenty Minutes: The First American Tourist
Richard Francis presents a picture of England in 1688 through the diaries of American Puritan traveller Samuel Sewall.
8.50 Purcell Dido and Aeneas

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert King
Unknown:
Peter Nardone
Tenor:
Robert Evans
Bass:
Charles Pott
Conducted By:
Robert King
Unknown:
Richard Francis
Unknown:
Samuel Sewall.
Unknown:
Purcell Dido
Dido:
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Aeneas:
Michael George (bass)
Belinda:
Rebecca Outram (soprano)
Second Witch:
Rebecca Outram (soprano)
Second woman:
Julie Cooper (soprano)
First witch:
Julie Cooper (soprano)
Sorceress:
Charles Humphries (countertenor)
Sailor:
Andrew Carwood (tenor)
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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