Baroque Highlights from Lammermuir
Unique concert performances including Concerto Copenhagen at the Lammermuir Festival and symphonic Berlioz from ±«Óătv NOW.
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 ±«Óătv 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 Niccolò 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 – a criticism he grew to regret.
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1pm
From the Lammermuir Festival:
Johann Valentin Meder
“Gott, hilf mir” 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
“Kommet her zu mir, alle” 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)
±«Óătv National Orchestra of Wales
Jonathan Bloxham (conductor)
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