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Afternoon on 3: Baroque Spring

Afternoon Concert: Baroque Spring: Episode 1

Episode 1

Baroque Spring

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Baroque Spring, Episode 1

Katie Derham presents Baroque music, by Charpentier, Bach, Telemann and Marais.

Katie Derham presents Baroque masterworks. Charpentier: Te Deum. Bach: Toccata and Fugue, BWV540. Telemann: Overture-Suite, BWV593. Marais: Les folies d'Espagne.

Katie Derham today spotlights some early works by JS Bach and some masterworks of the French Baroque as part of Baroque Spring. The choir which Bach himself conducted is heard in a joyful motet recorded in St Thomas's Church Leipzig and the famous 'Eurovision' trumpet fanfare which begins Charpentier's Te Deum is heard in the glorious acoustic of the Basilica of St Denis, the burial place of a host of French kings. 

2pm
Charpentier Te Deum in D 
Amel Brahim-Djelloul and Claire Lefilliâtre, (soprano), Jean-François Lombard (alto), Mathias Vidal (tenor), Benoît Arnould (bass), Les Cris de Paris, Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre (director) 

2.20pm 
Bach Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV 540
Ulrich Böhme, Bach organ of St Thomas Church, Leipzig

Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, motet, BWV 225 
St Thomas Choir and Leipzig University Chorus, Georg Christoph Biller (conductor) 

2.45pm
Telemann Overture-Suite in B flat, TWV 55:B5 ('Les Nations') 
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit (director) 

3.10pm 
Bach Organ Concerto in A minor, BWV 593 (after Vivaldi) 
Pier Damiano Peretti, historic organ of Stiftskirche, Ossiach 

3.25
Bach Cantata 'Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir', BWV 131 
Julian Prégardien (tenor), Markus Werba (baritone), Bavarian Radio Chorus and SO, Giovanni Antonini (conductor) 

3.50pm Marais Les Folies d'Espagne, from 'Pièces de viole, 2nd edition' 
Simone Eckert (viola da gamba), Ulrich Wedemeier (theorbo) 

4.10pm Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV 1050 
Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, Georg Kallweit (director).

Afternoon Concert: Baroque Spring

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Katie Derham spotlights some early works by Bach and masterworks of the French baroque

Katie Derham spotlights some early works by Bach and masterworks of the French baroque as part of Radio 3's celebration of Baroque music

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