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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2023: Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies, Novus Quartet

Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies, Novus Quartet

Edinburgh International Festival 2023

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Edinburgh International Festival 2023, Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies, Novus Quartet

A taste of the first week of the Edinburgh Festival with music by Handel and Britten.

A taste of the first week of the Edinburgh Festival with early music collective Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies plus the Novus String Quartet with works by Handel and Britten.

Enjoy a taste of the first week of the Queen's Hall Chamber Music Series at the Edinburgh International Festival.

The groundbreaking new early music collective, the Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies showcase some of the best dramatic arias from Handel's many Oratorios. 

The Novus String Quartet perform Britten's second String Quartet, the centre-piece to their Festival debut which was written as a tribute to Henry Purcell on the 250th anniversary of his death. The final movement called Chaconny uses the repeating bass line structure as an opportunity to explore melody, harmony and instrumental colour and texture through twenty-one variations separated into four groups by solo cadenzas from each instrument.  

Handel: Mortals think from The Triumph of Time & Truth
Handel: Suite from Theodora
Britten: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 36

Jupiter Ensemble
Thomas Dunford, director/lute
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Novus String Quartet

Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Produced by Lindsay Pell

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2023

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.

Concerts from the Queen's Hall series at the Edinburgh International Festival.

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