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Classical music from Denmark and highlights from the Cowbridge Music Festival

Elizabeth Alker showcases the best performances from the UK and beyond including music from the recent Cowbridge Festival and The Royal Danish Orchestra.

This week on Classical Live there is a focus on Danish music. The Royal Danish Orchestra conducted by Marie Jacquot perform Richard Strauss and Concerto Copenhagen, one of the leading baroque orchestras in the world, perform Avison and von Bayreuth, and Nordic folk band Dreamers' Circus perform traditional music.

Also in today's programme, a specially recorded performance of the Castalian Quartet from this year's Cowbridge Music Festival.

Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
The Royal Danish Orchestra
Marie Jacquot (conductor)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
5 FantasiestΓΌcke Op. 5
Castalian String Quartet

Charles Avison
Concerto grosso No. 3 in D minor
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and conductor)

Wilhelmine von Bayreuth
Harpsichord Concerto in G minor
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and conductor)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Wer da gläubet und getauft wirt, BWV 37
Chisa Tanigaki (soprano)
James Hall (countertenor)
Gwilym Bowen (tenor)
TomΓ΅s KrΓ΅l (bass)

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Lorenzo Viotti (conductor)

Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 ('Rosamunde')
Quatuor Danel

George Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV 232
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Concerto Copenhagen
TΓµnu Kaljuste (conductor)

Traditional
Medley
Dreamers' Circus

Release date:

2 hours, 58 minutes

On radio

Fri 15 Nov 2024 13:00

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Nov 2024 13:00