Afternoon on 3 - A Tribute to Edward Downes - Handel: Imeneo

Handel Operas 2009 Presented by Penny Gore. The Handel Opera Cycle reaches Handel's penultimate Italian opera - Imeneo - which he called an 'operetta', most likely because it is a short work and probably the shortest opera he ever wrote. The story centres on Tirinto, who loves Rosmene, and the hero Imeneo who has saved her life and also is in love with her. Who will win her in the end? Handel: Imeneo Tirinto ...... Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano) Rosmene ...... Johanna Stojkovic (soprano) Imeneo ...... Kay Stiefermann (bass) Clomiri ...... Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano) Argenio ...... Locky Chung (bass) Cologne Vocal Ensemble Capella Augustina Andreas Spering (conductor) 4.10pm A Tribute to Edward Downes Continuing a celebration of the BBC work of the late conductor Edward Downes with a Danish rarity - a symphony written in 1919-20 inspired by the old Indian symbol of the wheel of life, the swastika, before it was stolen by the Nazis. Louis Glass: Symphony No 5 (Svastica) BBC Philharmonic Edward Downes (conductor).