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Fiona Talkington showcases unique concert recordings from home and abroad, including the award-winning Danish Baroque orchestra Concerto Copenhagen at the recent Lammermuir Festival. Fiona selects highlights from three recitals.

Elsewhere, Classical Live's orchestra-in-focus the 蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales performs 'Harold in Italy' by Berlioz: a fusion of a symphony with a viola concerto. The work was commissioned by virtuoso violinist Niccol貌 Paganini to show off a new viola he'd bought. Famously, Paganini never performed it; whilst he admired the work, he deemed it insufficiently flashy鈥攁 criticism he grew to regret.

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1pm

From the Lammermuir Festival:

Johann Valentin Meder
鈥淕ott, hilf mir鈥� for bass solo, 4 violins, gamba and continuo*

Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Lamento di Ferdinando III

Johann Jacob Froberger
Toccata Seconda (1649), FbWV 102, for harpsichord

Georg Muffat
Sonata II in G Minor

Matthias Weckmann
Toccata in A minor for harpsichord
鈥淜ommet her zu mir, alle鈥� for bass solo, strings and continuo*

*Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass)
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director and harpsichord)

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From 3pm

Hector Berlioz
Harold in Italy Op. 16
Rebecca Jones (viola)
蜜芽传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)

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