Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | Monteverdi's Vespers Of 1610 | 20100601 | Presented by Petroc Trelawny Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610: Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana, from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. This year Monteverdi's Vespers celebrates its 400th anniversary. An iconic masterwork of the early Baroque, this collection of exquisitely written psalms and other sacred pieces is a showcase for the very best vocal-music techniques of its day, placing sumptuous plainchant-based polyphony alongside solo motets demonstrating the latest styles of sensual vocal melody. After bringing a brilliant Orfeo to the Lufthansa Festival in 2007, the multi-award-winning Italian vocal-and-instrumental ensemble La Venexiana returns under its director Claudio Cavina to open this year's Festival. Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music. Royal Academy Soloists Clio Gould director Gordon Jacob Overture (CD The Musical Landscape Royal Academy of Music Series Cantoris CRCD 6063) Live performance Aisha Orazbayeva violin Xenakis Mikka Britten Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, op.10 (part) (CD The Musical Landscape Royal Academy of Music Series Cantoris CRCD 6063). Claudio Cavina directs La Venexiana in Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert. |
02 | Handel's La Resurrezione | 20100602 | Presented by Petroc Trelawny Handel's Easter oratorio La Resurrezione: Gabrieli Consort & Players conducted by Paul McCreesh, from the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Handel's scintillating Easter oratorio La Resurrezione is a product of his youthful years in Italy, an intensely creative period for him when he forged the style that would serve him for the next 40 years. Like many before and after, he also discovered that Italy could teach him all he needed to know about singing and singers. Handel: La Resurrezione Angel: Mhairi Lawson Mary Magdalen: Gillian Webster Mary Cleophas: Romina Basso St John: Jeremy Ovenden Lucifer: Vuyani Mlinde Paul McCreesh, director Followed by performances by students at the Royal Academy of Music. Mozart Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis in B flat K275 Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir and Becket Ensemble conducted by Patrick Russell. Soloists Lucy Crowe soprano and Ed Lyon tenor recorded in 2001 in Neresheim Abbey (CD The Academy at Neresheim Abbey CRCD6066). Paul McCreesh conducts the Gabrieli Consort and Players in Handel's La Resurrezione. Performance on 3 has been replaced by Radio 3 Live in Concert. |