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Today’s Classical Live includes another chance to hear last Tuesday's Late Night Prom featuring the multi-talented counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński performing with his regular collaborators, the group Il Pomo d’Oro. Together they traverse the music of the early Baroque, which he believes is ‘beyond its times … still relevant, still alive, vibrant, touching, engaging and entertaining’. Featuring costume, light and movement, this Prom draws on operas, cantatas, sonatas and songs, moving from the beautiful to the bawdy and back again.

To start today’s Classical Live, Elizabeth Alker introduces exclusive recordings made at this year’s Cheltenham International Festival of Music, made especially for the programme. The Chaos String Quartet perform dance music by Henry Purcell, violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Llŷr Williams perform cutting edge music from America by Charles Ives and charismatic cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia reflects on music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

From the Cheltenham Festival:

Henry Purcell
Chacony in G minor, Z730
Chaos String Quartet

Charles Ives
Violin Sonata No. 4, ‘Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting’
Geneva Lewis (violin)
LlÅ·r Williams (piano)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor
Santiago Cañón-Valencia (cello)

Maurice Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin for orchestra
Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales
Sofi Jeannon (conductor)

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Â鶹Éç PROMS
(first broadcast live on 23rd July 2024)

Claudio Monteverdi
L’incoronazione di Poppea - ‘E pur io torno qui’

Claudio Monteverdi
Voglio di vita uscir

Biagio Marini
Per ogni sorte di strumento musicale, Op. 22 – Passacaglia

Giulio Caccini
Le nuove musiche - ‘Amarilli, mia bella’

Girolamo Frescobaldi
Arie musicali, Book I - ‘Cosi mi disprezzate’

Johann Kaspar Kerll
Sonata for Two Violins in F

Barbara Strozzi
Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2 – L'amante consolato

Francesco Cavalli
Pompeo Magno - ‘Incomprensibil nume’

Carlo Pallavicino
Demetrio – Sinfonia

Giovanni Cesare
Netti La Filli - ‘Misero core’; ‘Sì, sì, sì scoglia sì’; ‘Dolcissime catene’

Antonio Sartorio
Antonino e Pompeiano - ‘La certezza di tua fede’

Giovanni Cesare
Netti L’Adamiro - ‘Quanto più la donna invecchia’; ‘Son vecchia, patienza’

Adam Jarzebski
Canzoni e concerti – Tamburetta

Sebastiano Moratelli
La Faretra smarrita - ‘Lungi dai nostri cor’

Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor)
Il Pomo d’Oro

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