BBC Proms

Bach & Handel (1996x4)

Data emisji: Sie 14, 1996

Second of four Proms recorded especially for BBC television. James Naughtie introduces a programme of Bach and Handel, bringing together the choirs of Winchester Cathedral, New College, Oxford, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Featuring an interviewwith Belgian Rene Jacobs who makes his Prom debut conducting excerpts from Handel's opera Julius Caesar and two of Bach's most popularworks, Suite No 3 in D-which includes Airon a G String -and the Magnificat. Bach: Suite no.3 in D Handel: excerpts from Julius Caesar Bach: Magnificat in D major Performers:- Andreas Scholl (Caesar) - counter-tenor María Bayo (Cleopatra) - soprano Choir of New College Oxford Winchester Cathedral Choir Susan Gritton - soprano Peter Kooij - bass Jamie MacDougall - tenor Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment René Jacobs - conductor