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Episode 2

Penny Gore presents Baroque music from around Europe. Including premiere in modern times of a Pergolesi oratorio. Plus music by Zelenka, Zachow, Part and Lully.

Penny Gore this week highlights Baroque music making from around Europe. Today there's the premiere in modern times of an oratorio by Pergolesi and a cantata by Handel's teacher, Friederich Zachow.

Zelenka
Magnificat in C, ZWV 107
Hannah Morrison (soprano), Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (director)

2.10pm
Handel
Concerto Grosso in B flat, op. 3/2, HWV 313
1700 Lund Ensemble, Göran Karlsson (director)

2.20pm
Friedrich W. Zachow (1663-1712)
Cantata: Ruhe, Friede, Freud und Wonne
Verena Gropper (soprano), Franz Vitzthum (alto), Immo Schröder (tenor), Markus Flaig (bass), Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Hermann Max (director)

2.40pm
Arvo Part
For Lennart in memoriam
Concerto Köln, Peter Dijkstra (director)

2.50pm
Pergolesi
Septem verba a Christo (first performance in modern times)
Oratorio based on the Gospels of St John, St Luke and St Matthew
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (alto), Julien Behr (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass), Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, René Jacobs (director)

4.10pm
Lully
Suite from Alceste
Concerto Copenhagen, Jordi Savall (director).

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 19 Mar 2013 14:00

Music Played

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Magnificat in C ZWV 107

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat, op. 3/2, HWV 313

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow

    Cantata: Ruhe, Friede, Freud und Wonne

  • Arvo Pärt

    For Lennart in memoriam

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Septem verba a Christo in Cruce

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Suite d'Alceste

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Mar 2013 14:00