BBC Proms 2018 Prom 26, Late Night Serpent and Fire (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms 2018 Prom 26, Late Night Serpent and Fire (320kbps .mp3)

Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska joins Italy's leading early music ensemble for a programme that takes inspiration from two great queens, Cleopatra and Dido, who proved endlessly fascinating to Baroque composers. Operatic arias are framed by some of the period's most vital instrumental works.
01. Proms 2018, Prom 26, Part 01
Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, excerpts
Christoph Graupner - Dido, Queen of Carthage, excerpts
Antonio Sartorio - Julius Caesar in Egypt, excerpts
01i. General introduction to BBC Proms 2018, Prom 26

02. Proms 2018, Prom 26, Part 02
Matthew Locke, The Tempest - Curtain Tune
Antonio Sartorio - 'Quando voglio' (Julius Caesar in Egypt)
Christoph Graupner - 'Der Himmel ist von Donner...Infido Cupido' (Dido, Queen of Carthage)
02i. Introduction to Part 02

03. Proms 2018, Prom 26, Part 03
Handel - Concerto grosso in C minor, Op 6 No 8
03i. Introduction to Handel’s Concerto grosso in C minor, Op 6 No 8

04. Proms 2018, Prom 26, Part 04
Handel - Julius Caesar in Egypt - 'Che sento? Oh Dio! ... Se pietà di me non senti'
Dario Castello - Sonata No. 15 in D minor
Francesco Cavalli - Dido - 'Rè de' Getuli altero ... Il mio marito'
Johann Adolf Hasse - Mark Antony and Cleopatra - 'Morte col fiero aspetto'
04i. Introduction to Part 04
05. Proms 2018, Prom 26, Part 05
Purcell - Chaconne: Dance for Chinese Man and Woman (The Fairy Queen)
Purcell - 'Oft she visits this lone mountain' (Dido and Aeneas)
Purcell - "Thy hand Belinda…When I am laid in earth" (Dido and Aeneas)
05i. Introduction to Part 05

06. Purcell - Fear No Danger (From ‘Dido and Aeneas’) (encore)
Anna Prohaska, soprano
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Martin Handley

Broadcast: 2 August 2018