Radio 3 in Concert: Roderick Williams and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

As part of Southbank Centre's Inside Out season, baritone Roderick Williams directs the OAE and sings sacred solo cantatas by Telemann and JS Bach. After the interval, Williams joins soprano Rowan Pierce for Apollo e Dafne. In Handel's poignant and seductive setting of the tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses, passion and desire are succeeded by regret and penitence as Daphne fights off Apollo's insatiable lust and finds escape by transforming herself into a laurel tree, its branches forever watered by Apollo's remorseful tears. Introduced live from the Royal Festival Hall by Martin Handley. Telemann: Die Stille Nacht (Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus), TWV.1:364. JS Bach: Cantata No 82, Ich habe genug. 8.15 Interval - Roderick Williams introduces his choice of interval music (from CD). Charles Villiers Stanford: Nunc Dimittis in G Major, Op. 81. Charlie Baigent (baritone), Choir of King's College, Cambridge Henry Websdale (organ), Stephen Cleobury (conductor). Mendelssohn: Elijah, Part II (excerpt). Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone, Elijah), Renée Fleming (soprano), Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor),, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Paul Daniel (conductor). 8.45 Handel: Apollo e Dafne (Italian cantata No.16 HWV.122). Rowan Pierce (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone and director), Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment