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A journey to Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks

Sara Mohr-Pietsch plots a course towards Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.

1 hour, 29 minutes

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Sun 2 Nov 202513:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Mateo Flecha

    La Guerra

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich. Conductor: Michel Piguet.
    • España Eterna.
    • Warner Classics.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Juditha triumphans: Armata face et anguibus

    Singer: Lea Desandre. Ensemble: Jupiter. Director: Thomas Dunford.
    • Alpha Classics.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Military Polonaise

    Performer: Rafał Blechacz.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Missa in tempore belli (Paukenmesse): Sanctus

    Performer: Sigurd Brauns. Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Delores Ziegler. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Singer: Andreas Schmidt. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Marcus Creed. Conductor: James Levine.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Ross Parker

    We'll Meet Again

    Composer: Hughie Charles. Composer: Vera Lynn. Singer: Vera Lynn.
    • Parlophone.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Barber of Seville (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Hannah Kendall

    The Spark Catchers

    Orchestra: Chineke! Orchestra. Conductor: Kevin John Edusei.
    • NMC Recordings.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance Op.22 No.1

    Performer: Esther Abrami. Performer: Iyad Sughayer.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • NAIVE.

  • Anna Meredith

    Blackfriars

    Ensemble: Ligeti Quartet.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Thomas Morley

    Fyre! Fyre!

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Director: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.

  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes Book 2 (Feux d'artifice)

    Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks Op.4

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Nov 202513:30
    BBC Radio 3