Baritone Roderick Williams is featured as soloist and as director of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in sacred cantatas by Bach and Telemann. Soprano Rowan Pierce joins Mr. Williams and the OAE for the secular cantata Apollo e Dafne, Handel’s poignant and seductive setting of passion and desire followed by regret and penitence from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Tonight’s program was recorded live in concert October 20, 2020, in London’s Royal Festival Hall. Part of the Southbank Centre’s Inside Out series, performers are on stage in otherwise empty venues.
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