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Byron and Music

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written and narrated by ROGER FISKE with Martin Jarvis as Byron Donizetti and Verdi saw Byron's poems and dramas as obvious sources for opera libretti (not very successful as it turned out). But the adventurous Childe Harold sparked off Berlioz's Harold in Italy, The Lament of Tasso influenced Liszt's symphonic poem, and the guilt-ridden Manfred inspired both Schumann and Tchaikovsky.
Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Fiske
Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Byron Donizetti
Unknown:
Childe Harold
Producer:
John Theocharis
Liszt:
William Sleigh
Tchaikovsky:
David Sinclair
Berlioz:
Alan Rowe
Source: Radio Times

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