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Sound Frontiers: In support of early music

Lucie Skeaping is joined by Catherine MacKintosh, Peter Holman and Nick Wilson to discuss how Radio 3 helped to support and shape the early music movement in its early years.

Lucie Skeaping is joined by guests, violinist Catherine Mackintosh, director Peter Holman and Nick Wilson from King's College London to discuss how Radio 3 helped to support and shape the Early Music movement in its early years from the 1950s through to the 1990s.

Part of Radio 3's 70th season, celebrating seven decades of pioneering music and culture since the founding of the Third Programme.

Photo courtesy of Will Dyson.

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34 minutes

Music Played

  • Guillaume Dufay

    Vergene Bella

    Singer: Jantina Noorman. Ensemble: Musica Reservata.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespers [1610] : Deus in audiutorium meum

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Ierusalem

    Ensemble: Gothic Voices. Director: Christopher Page.
    • Hyperion : CDA66039.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.
  • Francesco Geminiani

    Trio Sonata in F

    Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music.
  • Thomas Arne

    Artaxerxes : Overture and fair Aurora

    Singer: Catherine Bott. Orchestra: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • HYPERION : CDA 67051.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Saeviat Tellus

    Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Ensemble: Taverner Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Erato : 5615792.
    • Erato.
    • 18.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata In D Minor Kk.417

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.

Broadcast

  • Sun 9 Oct 2016 14:00

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