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The Early Music Show

Music: Classical: Early Music

Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Garden of Early Delights

Garden of Early Delights

05/04/2015

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Garden of Early Delights

Music with a horticultural influence, performed in the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

Music with a horticultural influence, performed in the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, by Pamela Thorby, Alison McGillivray and Elizabeth Kenny.

Garden of Early Delights: music with a hint of the horticultural, performed in the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, by Pamela Thorby (recorder), Alison McGillivray (cello and viol) and Elizabeth Kenny (lute and theorbo). The programme reflects the Gallery's exhibition 'Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden', and includes music by Biagio Marini, Diego Ortiz, John Dowland, Jacob Van Eyck, and George Frideric Handel.

Introduced by Lucie Skeaping, in conversation with the exhibition's curator Vanessa Remington

Biagio Marini: Sonata Op 8 No 4 'per sonar con due corde'
Diego Ortiz: Recercada segunda (from 'Tratado de glosas', 1553)
Jacob van Eyck: Engels nachtegaeltje (from 'Der fluyten lust-hof')
Bartolomé de Selma y Salaverde: Canzon prima a canto e basso
John Dowland: Fantasia (on All in a Garden Green)
Johann Schop: Lachrimae Pavaen (from ''T uitnement kabinet', 1646)
Simon Ives: The Gilliflower (from Playford's 'Musick's recreation on the viol, lyra-way', 1682)
Anon: Canaries (from the Magdalene Cockburn lyra viol manuscript)
Handel: Cara speme (from 'Giulio Cesare')
Handel: Presti omai l'egizia terra (from 'Giulio Cesare')
Corelli: Sonata Op 5 No 4

Pamela Thorby (recorder)
Alison McGillivray (cello & lyra viol)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute & theorbo).

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