Afternoon on 3 - A Trip Away - Handel: Tolomeo, Act 3

Handel Opera Cycle Continuing Radio 3's complete Handel opera cycle, Penny Gore presents Act 3 of Tolomeo, a tale of marital and fraternal loyalty, deception and disguise. Handel: Tolomeo (Act 3) Tolomeo, banished ruler of Egypt ...... Axel Kohler (countertenor) Seleuce, wife of Tolomeo ...... Linda Perillo (soprano) Araspe, King of Cyprus ...... Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass) Elisa, sister of Araspe ...... Romelia Lichtenstein (mezzo-soprano) Alessandro, younger brother of Tolomeo ...... Jennifer Lane (mezzo-soprano) Handel Festival Orchestra, Halle Howard Arman (conductor) 3.20pm A Trip Away: Music inspired by foreign travel, including Smetana's depiction of the river Vltava in his Czech homeland. Plus another quartet from Haydn's revolutionary Op 33 set. Smetana: Vltava (Ma Vlast) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Rossen Gergov (conductor) Haydn: String Quartet in D, Op 33, No 6 Navarra Quartet Liszt: Orpheus - symphonic poem, Op 98 BBC Philharmonic Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) 4.15pm Strauss: Don Quixote BBC Philharmonic Garry Walker (conductor).