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Composer of the Week in Venice

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5/5. Death in Venice. Venice's air of melancholy and decay has captured the imaginations of literarygiants such as Proust, Thomas Mann and Henry James.
Donald Macleod follows the theme of Mann's novella and searches for "death in Venice".
Offenbach Barcarolle (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Jessye Norman (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Brussels Theatre Royal de la Monnaie SO/
Sylvain Cambreling Liszt La Lugubre Gondola Alfred Brendel (piano) Stravinsky Requiem Canticles (excerpt) Susan Bickley (mezzo),
New London Chamber Choir, London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen Wagner Siegfried's Death and Funeral March (Gotterdammerung) Berlin PO/ Herbert von Karajan Prelude, Act 3: Tristan und Isolde Berlin PO/Daniel Barenboim Britten
Death in Venice (excerpt) Peter Pears (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), English Chamber Orchestra/Steuart Bedford Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Mann
Unknown:
Henry James.
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Soprano:
Jessye Norman
Soprano:
Ann Murray
Piano:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Susan Bickley
Unknown:
Herbert von Karajan
Tenor:
Peter Pears
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Source: Radio Times

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