Radio 3 in Concert: Kristian Bezuidenhout Directs the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Live from Wigmore Hall on St Cecila's day, the internationally acclaimed keyboard-player Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the leading period instrumentalists of Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and a starry line-up of vocal soloists in Purcell and Handel. Presented by Martin Handley. Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia's Day), Z. 339; Overture (The Gordion Knot Unty'd, Z. 597); Hornpipe (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629); Slow Air (The Virtuous Wife, or Good Luck at Last, Z. 611); 3rd Act Tune (Rondeau) (The Indian Queen, Z. 630); Chacony in G minor, Z. 730; Oh that my grief was throughly weigh'd; In Guilty Night (Saul and the Witch of Endor), Z. 134 Hosanna to the highest, Z. 187; Who can from joy refrain? (Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester), Z. 342. 8.30 Interval music (from CD). Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat, K. 281. Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano). 8.50 Handel (arr. Kristian Bezuidenhout): Trio Sonata in G, Op. 5 No. 4, HWV. 399. Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 6 'As pants the hart' HWV. 251b. Grace Davidson (soprano), Rachel Redmond (soprano), Alexander Chance (alto), Samuel Boden (tenor), Hugo Hymas (tenor), David Shipley (bass), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord/director)