Nuria Rial with the Basel Chamber Orchestra; EML 26 November

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Elin Manahan Thomas presents highlights of a concert of Baroque music from the 2017 Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. The Basel Chamber Orchestra is joined by soprano Nuria Rial for a sequence of operatic arias and concertos with recorder player Maurice Steger.

Vivaldi: Overture to La Senna festeggiante, RV 693
Albinoni: Zeffiretti che spiegate, from 'Eraclea'
A Scarlatti: Piu non m'alletta e piace, from 'Il giardino d'amore'
Vivaldi: Quel'usignolo che al caro nido, from 'Arsilda regina di Ponto'
Leonardo Vinci: Rondinella che dal lido, from 'Ifigenia in Tauride'
Francesco Mancini: Sonata No 14 in G minor, for recorder, two violins, viola and continuo
Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in F major, Op 10 No 5 (RV 434)
Andrea Stefano Fiorè: Usignolo che col volo, from 'Engelberta'
Pietro Torri: Amorosa rondinella, from 'Nicomede'
Charles Dieupart: Recorder Concerto in A minor

Nuria Rial (soprano)
Maurice Steger (recorder)
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Stefano Barneschi (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gffh1

One of my favourite sopranos but it seems a lot to go through in an hour.

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This may not be sacred or spiritual but the music here definitely lifts your spirit no end.
(alas, not a best recorded concert)