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Afternoon on 3: Baltic Sea Festival 2009

Afternoon Concert: Baltic Sea Festival 2009: Episode 3: Handel: Ariodante (Act 3)/Baltic Sea Festival 2009

Handel: Ariodante (Act 3)/Baltic Sea Festival 2009

Episode 3

Episode 3: Handel: Ariodante (Act 3)/Baltic Sea Festival 2009

Baltic Sea Festival 2009

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Baltic Sea Festival 2009, Handel: Ariodante (Act 3)/Baltic Sea Festival 2009

Act 3 of Handel's opera Ariodante. Plus music from the Baltic Sea Festival 2009.

Handel Operas 2009: Louise Fryer presents Act 3 of Handel's Ariodante. Plus Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2 and music by Hakola, Klami and Sibelius.

Handel Operas 2009

Louise Fryer presents the concluding act of Handel's Ariodante, broadcast as part of a complete cycle of the composer's operas.

Handel: Ariodante, Act 3

Ariodante ...... Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)
Ginevra, his betrothed ..... Edith Mathis (soprano)
Polinesso, the villain ...... James Bowman (countertenor)
Dalinda, Ginevra's maid ...... Norma Burrowes (soprano)
Lurcanio, Polinesso's brother ...... David Rendall (tenor)
King of Scotland, Ginevra's father ...... Samuel Ramey (bass)
Odardo, his attendant ...... Alexander Oliver (tenor)
London Voices
English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard (conductor)

3.10pm
Baltic Sea Festival 2009:

Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21
Roland Pontinen (piano)
Sinfonia Varsovia
Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)

Kimmo Hakola: Le nuage d'Oort
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

Uuno Klami: Cheremissian Fantasy
Samuli Peltonen (cello)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor)

4.10pm
Sibelius: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 43
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgards (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Baltic Sea Festival 2009

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Louise Fryer presents music from the 2009 Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden

Louise Fryer presents music from the 2009 Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden and the work of its founders, conductors Valery Gergiev and Esa-Pekka Salonen

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