WCPE Goes Back to Baroque Weekend

Wake Forest, N.C. (Top40 Charts/ WCPE FM) TheClassicalStation.org announces today a "Back to Baroque" Weekend, April 20-21, 2013. Music Director William Woltz programs a weekend which highlights the language of music that came to be defined as the music we know today.

"There will be glorious music of Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Buxtehude, Purcell and Corelli," offers Woltz. "Plus, join our 70th birthday celebration for conductor and period-performance specialist John Eliot Gardiner on April 20."

Here are selected works to be aired:

19 Saturday
7:00 a.m. Vivaldi: Spring from Four Seasons
8:00 a.m. Purcell: Suite from Abdelazar
9:00 a.m. Handel: Water Music
10:00 a.m. Telemann: Overture in D from Tafelmusik
5:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D

20 Sunday
7:00 a.m. Bach: Motet no. 6 (Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden)
11:00 a.m. Handel: Music for The Royal Fireworks
12:00 p.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 2 in E
2:00 p.m. Telemann: Viola Concerto in G
3:00 p.m. Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F, op. 6, no. 6
4:00 p.m. Bach: Selections from Goldberg Variations

In addition to all this wonderful programming, you can program your favorite Baroque music. The Saturday Evening Request Program 6 to midnight plays your requests. Go to SERP and be a radio programmer for an evening!

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