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Hannah French finds out about Scottish fiddler and organist Charles Macklean, looks ahead to festivals in Banbury, Brighton & Salisbury and explores a raft of new recordings.

Hannah French finds out about a Scottish fiddler - Charles Macklean - who's also thought to have been Handel's organist and played in the premiere of Messiah in Dublin in 1742.

Hannah also talks to Radio 3's current New Generation Baroque Ensemble - The Bellot Ensemble - ahead of their upcoming tour, performing an English translation of Charpentier's opera David & Jonathan. And she hears from viola player Johannes Pramsohler about his new album of "Berlin" concertos by composers such as Carl Heinrich Hermann Benda, Ignaz Mara, Markus Heinrich Grauel and Johann Gottlieb Graun.

There's news from three upcoming early music festivals in Banbury, Brighton and Salisbury, and a wealth of other new recordings to explore, including recent releases of medieval dance music from La Reverdie and Monteverdi from La Fonte Musica.

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Music Played

  • Anonymous French

    De Patre principio

    Ensemble: La Reverdie.
    • ARCANA.

  • Ignac Frantisek Mara

    Viola Concerto in E flat major

    Performer: Johannes Pramsohler. Ensemble: Ensemble Diderot.
    • AUDAX RECORDS.

  • Marco Antonio Ferro

    Sonata 10 a4

    Ensemble: Bellot Ensemble.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    David et Jonathas (Ouverture) (excerpt)

    Orchestra: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Charpentier: David et Jonathas H.490.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 1.

  • Charles Macklean

    Sonata in A minor, Op.1 No.4 (Gavott)

    Ensemble: The Curious Collection.

  • Henry Purcell

    Twas within a furlong of Edinburgh Town

    Ensemble: The Curious Collection.

  • Charles Macklean

    Variations on "Twas within a furlong of Edinburgh Town"

    Ensemble: The Curious Collection.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sweet Bird [L'allegro, Il Pensero ed Moderato] (excerpt)

    Performer: Marcello Gatti. Singer: Sandrine Piau. Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.
    • NAIVE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Rejoice Greatly [Messiah] (excerpt)

    Singer: Hilary Cronin. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Whelan.
    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Linn Records.
    • 19.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Pulchra es amica mea

    Ensemble: Pro Cantione Antiqua. Director: Bruno Turner.
    • Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum Salomonis – The Song of Songs.
    • Hyperion.
    • 22.

  • Pierre Certon

    C'est grand pityé

    Ensemble: The Boston Camerata. Conductor: Joel Cohen.
    • Certon: Chansons.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 2.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Duo Seraphim [Vespers of 1610] (excerpt)

    Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Monteverdi: 1610 Vespers.
    • CORO.
    • 7.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Il Combattimento di Tancredi et Clorinda (excerpt)

    Ensemble: La Fonte Musica. Conductor: Michele Pasotti.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    Barafostus' Dreame (excerpt)

    Performer: Luca Pianca. Performer: Margret Koell.
    • ACCENT.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Tönt in meinem Lobgesang [Ino, TWV.20] (excerpt)

    Singer: Amanda Forsythe. Orchestra: Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Director: Paul O’Dette.
    • CPO.

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