Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Live and recorded concerts from all over the UK. Includes the Wigmore chamber music series

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Lea Desandre and Jupiter

Lea Desandre and Jupiter

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Lea Desandre and Jupiter

Live from Wigmore Hall, mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre sings Baroque rarities.

Live from Wigmore Hall, mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre sings Baroque rarities in a programme taken from her multi-awarding-winning 2021 album Amazone.

Charismatic mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre is joined by the ensemble Jupiter in an all-Baroque programme, taken from their multi-awarding-winning 2021 album, Amazone. 

Live from Wigmore Hall, London
Presented by Hannah French

Francesco Provenzale: Lo schiavo di sua moglie - "Non posso far"
Francesco Cavalli: Ercole amante - Sinfonia
Francesco Provenzale: Lo schiavo di sua moglie - "Lasciatemi morir"
Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani: Mitilene, regina delle Amazoni - "Muove il piè, furia d'Averno"
Georg Caspar Schürmann: Die getreue Alceste - Sinfonia pour la tempête
Carlo Pallavicino: Antiope - "Vieni, corri, volami in braccio"; "Sdegni, furori barbari"
Anne Danican Philidor: Les amazones - "Venez, troupe guerrière"
Marin Marais: Suite d'un goût étranger - L'Américaine
André Cardinal Destouches: Marthésie, reine des Amazones - "Ô Mort! Ô triste mort"
Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole su’l Termodonte RV710 - Overture: I. Allegro
Georg Caspar Schürmann: Die getreue Alceste - "Non ha fortuna il pianto mio"
Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole su’l Termodonte RV710 - Overture: II. Andante
Giuseppe de Bottis: Mitilene, regina delle Amazzoni - "Lieti fiori"
Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole su’l Termodonte RV710 - Overture: III. Allegro; "Onde chiare che sussurate"

Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano)
Jupiter Ensemble

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