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The Elements: Fire

Hannah French continues her series of programmes associated with the elements. Today's focus is fire - with music by Vivaldi, Rameau, Araujo, Corette, Rebel and JS Bach.

Hannah French continues her series of programmes associated with the ancient Greek concept of the four elements – symbolic forces that inspired Renaissance and Baroque composers with the essences of creation out of chaos: earth, air, water, and today, fire.

Today's programme focuses on all things fiery, with music by Vivaldi, Rameau, Araujo, Corette, Rebel and JS Bach.

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26 minutes

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Sun 17 Sep 202314:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Antonio de Literes

    Los Elementos: Mas si fuese la planta fugitiva; Fuego encendido

    Performer: Eduardo López Banzo. Performer: Xenia Meijer. Ensemble: Al Ayre Español.
    • Deutsche HM.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Juditha triumphans: Armata face et anguibus

    Singer: Lea Desandre.
    • ALPHA.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Zoroastre: La flamme le consume; Quel bonheur; Air trés vifs

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • ERATO.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Rinaldo: Furie terribili

    Singer: Anna Prohaska. Ensemble: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • DG ARCHIV.

  • Thomas Morley

    Fyer, fyer

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Hyperion.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Luci Serene

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • Naive.

  • Juan de Araujo

    Fuego de Amor

    Choir: Ex Cathedra. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, Cantata no. 34 BWV.34

    Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anonymous English

    Mourning in ashes

    Singer: Richard Wistreich.
    • Naxos.

  • Michel Corrette

    Les prétentions du violoncelle

    Ensemble: Ricercar Consort. Conductor: Philippe Pierlot.
    • RICERCAR.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: La Réjouissance

    Ensemble: Arte dell'Arco. Director: Federico Guglielmo.
    • CPO.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Overture (Acante et Céphise)

    Orchestra: Les Talens Lyriques. Director: Christophe Rousset.
    • Rameau: Overtures performed by Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Rousset.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 17.

  • Jean‐Féry Rebel

    Les Éléments: Chaconne le Feu

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Oct 202114:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sun 17 Sep 202314:00
    BBC Radio 3

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