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BBC announces line-up for Baroque Remixed recording

By | Published on Tuesday 26 February 2013

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More details have been announced about ‘Baroque Remixed’, the previously reported BBC venture due to air as part of Corporation’s upcoming Baroque season. The Remixed programme will see various music types collaborating with the BBC Concert Orchestra to reinvent works from the Baroque era of classical music (approx 1600-1750, if you were wondering).

Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory will be joined by his Moog Ensemble for a world premiere of their new version of Johann Bach’s ‘Sarabande’, whilst Scandinavian singer-songwriter Ane Brun will both sing and play guitar in an arrangement of ‘When I Am Laid In Earth’ from Henry Purcell’s opera ‘Dido And Aeneas’.

Elsewhere, Matthew Herbert will rework the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau by combining orchestral and electronic sounds, while composer and conductor Thomas Adès will be performing his popular ‘Three Studies from Couperin’. 6music’s Lauren Laverne and Radio 3’s Andrew McGregor will host the proceedings, which will be broadcast live on R3 from London’s Roundhouse on 11 Mar.

Andrew Connolly, General Manager of the BBC Concert Orchestra, told CMU: “We hope to open people’s ears to the great masterpieces of the Baroque era through these exciting and original 21st century makeovers”.



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