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With Sarah Walker. In this week of the Royal Wedding, music with Pomp and Circumstance, recordings by Mitsuko Uchida, plus our Wednesday Award-winners are the Los Angeles Quartet performing Haydn's String Quartet, Op.33 No.2 The Joke.

10.00
Handel
Let Thy Hand be Strengthened, HWV 259
Choir of Westminster Abbey
The English Concert
Simon Preston (director)
Archiv 410 030-2

10.09
Wednesday Award-winner

Haydn
String Quartet in E flat, op.33 no.2 (The Joke)
Los Angeles String Quartet Philips 464 650-2

10.27
Artist of the Week

Chopin
Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, Op.58
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
Philips 420 949-2

10.57
In the final countdown to the Royal Wedding, we play a royal tribute of our own: Purcell's Come, Ye Sons of Art. As one of the king's favourite composers, Purcell was commissioned to write odes for the birthday of Queen Mary II. This work, written in 1694, is the last birthday ode he wrote; by the end of 1695, both he and Queen Mary had passed away. It's a piece with a particular gravitas, a quality that shines out in this recording from The Choir of King's College Cambridge directed by Stephen Cleobury.

Purcell
Come, Ye Sons of Art
Kate Royal (soprano)
David Hansen (countertenor)
Timothy Mead (countertenor)
Jacques Imbrailo (bass)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI 344438-2

11.20
Mendelssohn
Symphony No.5 in D, op.107 (Reformation)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 4777581.

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