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Baroque Around the Clock

Rob Cowan presents music, Baroque brainteasers, the Radio 3 presenters' Top of the Baroque challenge and Beastly Baroque from Simon Russell Beale.

Rob Cowan continues Radio 3's Baroque-a-thon with great music and must-have performances; brainteasers to test your knowledge of the Baroque; Beastly Baroque from Simon Russell Beale; and updates from Suzy Klein, Jez Nelson, Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Tom Service and Sarah Walker on their Top of the Baroque challenges.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 15 Mar 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Allegro finale (Sonata in F major, TWV43:F1)

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D, K436

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Fanfarinette (arr. Raaf Hekkema)

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto, RV558 (for everything but the kitchen sink)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wir setzen uns mit tranen nieder (St Matthew Passion)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Improvisations on the first movement of the Concerto in D minor by J.S. Bach

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Nais Overture (by Rameau not Bruce Forsyth's "Nice to see you to see you...")

  • Francesco Canova da Milano

    Fantasia Sexta

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Se tu m'ami arr. Parisotti

  • Andre-Joseph Exaudet

    Gavotte

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata BWV140)

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in F, HWV295 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Battalia

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Alleluia (Cantata, BuxWV15)

  • Michael Praetorius

    Bourree (Terpsichore No.32)

  • P.D.Q. Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Short-tempered Clavier)

  • Johann Christoph Pepusch

    Overture to Venus & Adonis

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Mittag (Die Tageszeiten) [Noon from the Cantata, The Times of the Day]

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  • Fri 15 Mar 2013 09:00

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