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Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Purcell - King Arthur

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22/10/2015

Purcell - King Arthur

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Penny Gore presents a performance of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur.

Penny Gore presents a performance of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur recorded at the 2015 Utrecht Early Music Festival. Plus works by Sibelius and Haydn.

Penny Gore introduces the Thursday opera matinee, a performance of Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur recorded at this year's Utrecht Early Music Festival. The story is not about Camelot but concerns the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons; and Arthur's attempts to get back his beloved, the blind Cornish Princess Emmeline, who has been taken off by his rival, King Oswald. The rest of the afternoon continues the week's theme of music from the Southern Hemisphere with a piece by the Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe, who died last year. And the afternoon ends with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra playing works by Sibelius and Haydn

2pm
Purcell
King Arthur, Part 1
Caroline Weynants, soprano (Philidel)
Tomás Král, bass (Aeolus, Grimbald)
Sophie Junker, soprano (Nereid, Cupid)
Sebastian Myrus, baritone (Cold Genius, Comus)
Lionel Meunier, bass (Pan)
Kristen Witmer, soprano (Comus, Venus, Honour)
Robert Buckland, tenor (Comus)
Olivier Berten, tenor (Comus)
Zsuzsi Tóth, soprano (Venus)
Vox Luminis
Ensemble La Fenice
Jean Tubéry (conductor)

2.47pm
Purcell
King Arthur Part 2

3.21pm
Sculthorpe
Earth Cry
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis (conductor)

3.32pm
James Ledger 
Two Memorials
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jessica Cottis (conductor)

3.53pm
Sibelius
Finlandia
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor)

4.03pm
Haydn
Trumpet Concerto
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Eivind Aadland (conductor).

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