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On St Cecilia's day, live from Wigmore Hall, the internationally acclaimed keyboard-player Kristian Bezuidenhout directs the leading period instrumentalists of Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and a starry line-up of vocal soloists in a concert celebrating the patron saint of music. The programme features works by two of England's greatest composers, beginning with the 24-year-old Purcell's Ode for St Cecilia's Day 'Welcome to all the pleasures'. The concert includes Handel's Chandos Anthem 'As pants the hart'. The sixth of a set of 11 mini-cantatas commissioned by the prodigally extravagant James Bridges, Duke of Chandos, it's one of the countless examples of the ever-canny Handel's capacity for ingeniously re-working his older music into something fresh and new.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Henry Purcell:
Welcome to all the pleasures (Ode for St Cecilia's Day), Z. 339
Overture (The Gordion Knot Unty鈥檇, Z. 597)
Third Act Tune: Hornpipe (King Arthur, or The British worthy Z. 628)
Third Act Tune: Rondeau (The Indian Queen, Z. 630)
Slow Air (The Virtuous Wife, or Good Luck at Last, Z. 611)
Hosanna to the highest, Z. 187
Chacony in G minor, Z. 730
Handel: Chandos Anthem No. 6 'As pants the hart' HWV. 251b

8.40 pm
Interval music (from CD)
Haydn: Partita (Divertimento) in G major Hob. XVI:6
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

9.00 pm
Handel (arr. Kristian Bezuidenhout): Trio Sonata in G, Op. 5 No. 4, HWV. 399
Purcell: Who can from joy refrain? (Birthday Ode for the Duke of Gloucester), Z. 342

Grace Davidson & Rachel Redmond (sopranos)
Alexander Chance (alto)
Samuel Boden & Hugo Hymas (tenors)
David Shipley (bass)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Kristian Bezuidenhout (harpsichord/director)