3/5. On his second visit to England, Handel lived in Burlington House, Piccadilly, where "at dinner he sat down with men of the first eminence for genius and abilities of any in the kingdom".
Donald Macleod looks at the music associated with this period of Handel's career.
Overture: II Pastor Fido Simon Standage (violin), The English Concert, conductor Trevor Pinnock Cara Sposa (Rinaldo) James Bowman (alto), the King's Consort, conductor Robert King
Amadigi di Gaula , Act 2 (excerpt) Jennifer Smith and Eiddwen Harrhy (sopranos),
Nathalie Stutzmann (mezzo), Les Musiciens du Louvre, conductor Marc Minkowski
Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight