Saturday
Lucie Skeaping looks in detail at one of Handel's most popular and enduring works: Acis & Galatea. With extracts from recordings by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult, among othershttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009tqxm
Sunday
Catherine Bott profiles harpsichordist & conductor Harry Bicket - regular at Glyndebourne & the New York Metropolitan Opera, and current musical director of The English Concert - about his career and his recordings. Music includes works by Handel, Bach, Pergolesi and Gluck in performances by Renée Fleming, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Andreas Scholl and Elizabeth Watts
Plus CD Review at 11.30am
CHARPENTIER: David et Jonathas
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
(Did anyone see the performance at Edinburgh Festival?)
and
HANDEL: Saul
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Lucie Skeaping looks in detail at one of Handel's most popular and enduring works: Acis & Galatea. With extracts from recordings by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult, among othershttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009tqxm
Sunday
Catherine Bott profiles harpsichordist & conductor Harry Bicket - regular at Glyndebourne & the New York Metropolitan Opera, and current musical director of The English Concert - about his career and his recordings. Music includes works by Handel, Bach, Pergolesi and Gluck in performances by Renée Fleming, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Susan Graham, Andreas Scholl and Elizabeth Watts
Plus CD Review at 11.30am
CHARPENTIER: David et Jonathas
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)
(Did anyone see the performance at Edinburgh Festival?)
and
HANDEL: Saul
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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