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Roderick Williams and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Baritone Roderick Williams directs the OAE and sings sacred solo cantatas by Telemann and Bach, and is joined by soprano Rowan Pierce for Handel's secular Apollo e Dafne.

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

8.15pm
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)

8.45pm
Handel: Apollo e Dafne (Italian cantata No.16 HWV.122)

Rowan Pierce (soprano)
Roderick Williams (baritone and director)
Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment

Followed by music chosen by young people involved in the outreach and artist development schemes run by Southbank’s Resident and Associate orchestras and Creative Learning Partners

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Tue 20 Oct 2020 19:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Cantata 'Der am Ölberg zagende Jesus', TWV 1:364

    Performer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata No 82 'Ich habe genug'

    Performer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 2 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Roderick Williams.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Cantata 'Apollo e Dafne', HWV.122

    Performer: Rowan Pierce. Performer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

  • Arturo Márquez

    Danzon No.2 (extract)

    Orchestra: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Symphonie Concertante for two violins and orchestra in G major, Op.13 (extract)

    Performer: Miriam Fried. Performer: Jaime Laredo. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Freeman.

  • Steve Reich

    Different Trains (extract)

    Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.

  • Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Rondeau (Sonata for harp and flute)

    Performer: Sandrine Chatron. Performer: Amélie Michel.

  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the Leaf, Op 20

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, Op 39

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Symphony no.1/Pomp and circumstance marches: Handley.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 Oct 2020 19:30
    BBC Radio 3