The Early Music Show

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Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Ensemble Augelletti - A Curious MInd

Ensemble Augelletti - A Curious MInd

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Ensemble Augelletti - A Curious MInd

Hannah French explores the world of early music.

Ensemble Augelletti, current BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble, perform at the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, with music by 17thC local composer Edward Finch.

For their first visit to the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival, Ensemble Augelletti - the newly appointed BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble focus their musical lens on a curious and well-connected local clergyman and musician – Edward Finch.  Specialising in making musical arrangements of the most popular music of his time, including Henry Purcell’s wonderful ‘Golden Sonata’, Ensemble Augelletti tell Finch’s singular story and they perform some of his compositions and arrangements alongside music by his friends Purcell, Handel, and Geminiani.

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