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Radio 3 in Concert: Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Purcell and Handel.

Live from Wigmore Hall on St Cecila's day, Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and a starry line-up of vocal soloists in Purcell and Handel.

On St Cecilia's day, live from Wigmore Hall, the internationally acclaimed keyboard-player Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the leading period instrumentalists of Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and a starry line-up of vocal soloists in a concert celebrating the patron saint of music. The programme features works by two of England's greatest composers, beginning with the 24-year-old Purcell's Ode for St Cecilia's Day 'Welcome to all the pleasures'. The concert includes Handel's Chandos Anthem  'As pants the hart'. The sixth of a set of 11 mini-cantatas commissioned by the prodigally extravagant James Bridges, Duke of Chandos, it's one of the countless examples of the ever-canny Handel's capacity for ingeniously re-working his older music into something fresh and new.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Henry Purcell:
Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia's Day), Z. 339
Overture (The Gordion Knot Unty’d, Z. 597)
Third Act Tune: Hornpipe (King Arthur, or The British worthy Z. 628)
Third Act Tune: Rondeau (The Indian Queen, Z. 630)
Slow Air (The Virtuous Wife, or Good Luck at Last, Z. 611)
Hosanna to the highest, Z. 187
Chacony in G minor, Z. 730
Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 6 'As pants the hart' HWV. 251b

8.40 pm
Interval music (from CD)
Haydn: Partita (Divertimento) in G major Hob. XVI:6
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

9.00 pm
Handel (arr. Kristian Bezuidenhout): Trio Sonata in G, Op. 5 No. 4, HWV. 399
Purcell: Who can from joy refrain? (Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester), Z. 342

Grace Davidson & Rachel Redmond (sopranos)
Alexander Chance (alto)
Samuel Boden & Hugo Hymas (tenors)
David Shipley (bass)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord/director)

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