Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Baroque Fancies: Rachel Podger and Friends

Baroque Fancies: Rachel Podger and Friends

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert, Baroque Fancies: Rachel Podger and Friends

Rachel Podger and friends explore musical imagination of Telemann, Biber and Froberger.

Baroque superstar violinist, Rachel Podger, and friends explore music by Telemann, Biber and Froberger, from the outer limits of the Baroque imagination.

In the final concert of the series, Sarah Walker presents the baroque superstar violinist, Rachel Podger, with lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and hapsichordist Marcin Swiatkiewicz, in a programme of highly virtuosic showpieces of the Baroque era, from Biber to Telemann and Froberger to Veracini.


HEINRICH BIBER
Sonata representativa

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Fantasie No 7 in E-flat major

JOHANN JAKOB FROBERGER
Toccata in D major

HEINRICH BIBER
Sonata No 6 in C minor, ‘The Agony in the Garden’

ROBERT DE VISEE
Chaconne for lute

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Fantasie No 3 in F minor

FRANCESCO MARIA VERACINI
Violin Sonata No 12 in D minor

Rachel Podger (violin)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Marcin Świątkiewicz (harpsichord)

Recorded at LSO St Luke's in London in November 2023.

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