
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Lucie Skeaping presents a Valentine's Day programme exploring some of the complexities of love. The music reflects themes of longing, jealousy, and the influence of Cupid, by composers such as Machaut, Monteverdi, Campion and Vivaldi.
First broadcast 14/02/2009.
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Henry Purcell
'Cupid, the Slyest Rogue Alive'
Performer: Sylvia McNair. Performer: Laurence Dreyfus. Performer: Christopher Hogwood. -
Anon.
'Michi confer, venditor' from Carmina Burana
Performer: Michael George. Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Performer: Catherine Bott. -
Johannes Ockeghem
Ma Maistresse
Performer: The Clerks. Performer: Edward Wickham. -
Claudio Monteverdi
Una donna fra l'altre
Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini. Performer: Concerto Italiano. -
Thomas Campion
'Fire, fire'
Performer: Michael Chance. Performer: Nigel North. -
Guillaume de Machaut
Mors sui, se je ne vous voy
Performer: Gothic Voices. -
Anonymous
Les tendres souhaits
Performer: Le Poème Harmonique. -
Antonio Vivaldi
Aria 'Gelosia' from 'Ottone in villa'
Performer: Stephen Stubbs. Performer: Suzie LeBlanc. Performer: Teatro Lirico. -
Marc‐Antoine Charpentier
'Crois-tu mon malheur' from 'Medee'
Performer: Les Arts Florissants. Performer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Performer: Noémi Rime. -
Anonymous
The Bloody Battle at Billingsgate
Performer: The City Waites. Performer: Catherine Bott. Performer: Lucie Skeaping. -
Bernart de Ventadorn
'Can l'erba fresch'
Performer: Duo Trobairitz. -
George Frideric Handel
'Romilda infida' & 'Troppo altraggi la mia fede' from 'Serse'
Performer: Basel Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Núria Rial. Performer: Lawrence Zazzo. Performer: Laurence Cummings.
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- Sat 14 Feb 2009 13:00ѿý Radio 3
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