Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music The first of a week of programmes recorded at this year's festival, held in June at St John's Smith Square in London. The festival brought together a number of distinguished foreign ensembles, and in today's programme Lucie Skeaping introduces performances of Handel's
Water Music and Telemann's orchestral suite Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth by the Dutch group Ensemble Zefiro, as well as music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries performed by the Argentinian soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr with Concerto Soave.
