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Afternoon Concert

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Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: Baroque Spring

Afternoon Concert: Baroque Spring: Episode 5

Episode 5

Baroque Spring

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Baroque Spring, Episode 5

Katie Derham presents Baroque masterworks, by Lully, Rameau, Telemann and Bach.

Katie Derham presents Baroque masterworks. Lully: Te Deum. Rameau: Suite in A. Telemann: La Changeante. Bach: Lass, Furstin, lass noch einen Strahl.

Katie Derham presents some masterpieces of the Baroque as part of Baroque Spring.
Today there's a funeral cantata by Bach, a grand Te Deum by Louis XIV's infamous Superintendant of Music and a chance to hear one of the seldom performed Organ Masses so popular in Baroque France in a performance given at the great monastery of Montserrat outside Barcelona.

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

2.30pm
Rameau Suite in A, from 'Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin'
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

3pm Kyrie and Gloria from Couperin's Organ Mass for Convents interspersed with Gregorian chant from 'the Messe royale du VIème ton' by Henri du Mont
Capella de Música de Montserrat, Jean-Baptiste Robin (organ)

3.30pm
Telemann La Changeante, orchestral suite 1700
1700 Lund Ensemble, Göran Karlsson (harpsichord)

3.50pm
Bach Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl', funeral music
Rosemary Joshua, (soprano),
Meg Bragle (mezzo),
Julian Prégardien (tenor),
Markus Werba (baritone),
Bavarian Radio Chorus and SO, guest intrumental soloists from Concerto Italiano, Giovanni Antonini (conductor).

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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