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

Live and recorded concerts from all over the United Kingdom. Also includes the flagship Wigmore chamber music series.

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Edinburgh International Festival 2023: Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Jupiter Ensemble

Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Jupiter Ensemble

Edinburgh International Festival 2023

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Edinburgh International Festival 2023, Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Jupiter Ensemble

Dramatic arias and the elegant instrumental music of Handel.

Leading countertenor Iestyn Davies joins the groundbreaking early music collective Jupiter Ensemble to perform dramatic oratorio arias and elegant instrumental music of Handel.

Founded by lutenist/director Thomas Dunford, the Jupiter Ensemble brings together some leading French and English musicians to explore a wide range of repertoire. In this concert, the leading British countertenor Iestyn Davies joins the ground-breaking new early music collective to explore the rich seam of dramatic arias from Handel's oratorios and uncovers some unjustly forgotten gems. 

Handel: Eternal source of light divine from Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne 
Handel: The raptur’d soul from Theodora
Handel: Yet, can I hear that dulcet lay from The Choice of Hercules
Handel: Dances from Terpsicore 
Handel: O sacred oracles of truth from Belshazzar
Handel: But hark ! The heavenly sphere turns round & Despair no more shall wound me from Semele
Handel: Sarabande from Suite No 4 in D minor, HWV 437 
Handel: On the valleys, dark and cheerless from The Triumph of Time and Truth
Handel: Kind Heaven

Jupiter Ensemble
Thomas Dunford, director/lute
Iestyn Davies, countertenor

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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Edinburgh International Festival 2023

Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Jupiter Ensemble

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