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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

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 2

Baroque Spring

Episode 2

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, Baroque Spring, Episode 2

Penny Gore presents music by Pergolesi, Zelenka, Zachow, Part and Lully.

Penny Gore presents Baroque music from around Europe. Including premiere in modern times of a Pergolesi oratorio. Plus music by Zelenka, Zachow, Part and Lully.

Penny Gore this week highlights Baroque music making from around Europe. Today there's the premiere in modern times of an oratorio by Pergolesi and a cantata by Handel's teacher, Friederich Zachow.


Zelenka
Magnificat in C, ZWV 107
Hannah Morrison (soprano), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (director)

2.10pm
Handel
Concerto Grosso in B flat, op. 3/2, HWV 313
1700 Lund Ensemble, Göran Karlsson (director)

2.20pm
Friedrich W. Zachow (1663-1712)
Cantata: Ruhe, Friede, Freud und Wonne
Verena Gropper (soprano), Franz Vitzthum (alto), Immo Schröder (tenor), Markus Flaig (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (director)

2.40pm
Arvo Part
For Lennart in memoriam
Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra (director)

2.50pm
Pergolesi
Septem verba a Christo (first performance in modern times)
Oratorio based on the Gospels of St John, St Luke and St Matthew
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (alto), Julien Behr (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass), Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, René Jacobs (director)

4.10pm
Lully
Suite from Alceste
Concerto Copenhagen, Jordi Savall (director).

Afternoon Concert: Baroque Spring

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring Baroque music from around Europe

Penny Gore presents a series of programmes featuring Baroque music-making from around Europe

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