Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies, Novus Quartet
A taste of the first week of the Edinburgh Festival with early music collective Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies plus the Novus String Quartet with works by Handel and Britten.
Enjoy a taste of the first week of the Queen's Hall Chamber Music Series at the Edinburgh International Festival.
The groundbreaking new early music collective, the Jupiter Ensemble & Iestyn Davies showcase some of the best dramatic arias from Handel's many Oratorios.
The Novus String Quartet perform Britten's second String Quartet, the centre-piece to their Festival debut which was written as a tribute to Henry Purcell on the 250th anniversary of his death. The final movement called Chaconny uses the repeating bass line structure as an opportunity to explore melody, harmony and instrumental colour and texture through twenty-one variations separated into four groups by solo cadenzas from each instrument.
Handel: Mortals think from The Triumph of Time & Truth
Handel: Suite from Theodora
Britten: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 36
Jupiter Ensemble
Thomas Dunford, director/lute
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
Novus String Quartet
Presented by Jamie MacDougall
Produced by Lindsay Pell
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Music Played
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George Frideric Handel
Mortals think (The Triumph of Time & Truth)
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Ensemble: Jupiter Ensemble. Director: Thomas Dunford. -
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George Frideric Handel
Suite from Theodora
Ensemble: Jupiter Ensemble. Director: Thomas Dunford. -
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Benjamin Britten
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 36
Ensemble: Novus String Quartet. -
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Albert Zabel
Fantasy on themes from Gounod's Faust, Op. 12
Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson.- Op茅ra Fantaisie (Opera Fantasia).
- Naive.
Broadcast
- Fri 11 Aug 2023 13:00麻豆社 Radio 3