Saturday
Catherine Bott introduces highlights from a concert given by the acclaimed Swedish group, Ensemble Villancico who made their UK debut with a programme of music from which they have earned a global reputation. Musicians and dancers combine to celebrate a time when African rhythms and Indian folk melodies met European Renaissance and Baroque traditions to create distinctive early music from Ecuador.
Sunday
Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert from York Early Music Festival 2012. Florilegium with the Arakaendar Bolivia Choir directed by Ashley Solomon perform 17th and 18th Century Bolivian music from the Chiquitos & Moxos Indians
Plus
CD Review 9.05
Vivaldi, Telemann and Buxtehude
And
Proms Saturday Matinee: Art of Fugue
Mahan Esfahani and AAM
Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in a new instrumental arrangement by Esfahani himself. In doing so he revives the informal spirit of Bach's Leipzig coffee house concerts, in which the composer would direct his own band of musicians
Catherine Bott introduces highlights from a concert given by the acclaimed Swedish group, Ensemble Villancico who made their UK debut with a programme of music from which they have earned a global reputation. Musicians and dancers combine to celebrate a time when African rhythms and Indian folk melodies met European Renaissance and Baroque traditions to create distinctive early music from Ecuador.
Sunday
Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert from York Early Music Festival 2012. Florilegium with the Arakaendar Bolivia Choir directed by Ashley Solomon perform 17th and 18th Century Bolivian music from the Chiquitos & Moxos Indians
Plus
CD Review 9.05
Vivaldi, Telemann and Buxtehude
And
Proms Saturday Matinee: Art of Fugue
Mahan Esfahani and AAM
Mahan Esfahani joins the Academy of Ancient Music to perform Bach's Art of Fugue in a new instrumental arrangement by Esfahani himself. In doing so he revives the informal spirit of Bach's Leipzig coffee house concerts, in which the composer would direct his own band of musicians