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Composer of the Week: Pizzetti

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Susan Sharpe.
3: A Lament. Pizzetti's setting of Shelley's famous Lament was written as his wife was dying of typhus and was such a personal work that he never allowed it to be performed. Castle of the Merciless Queen (La Pisanella) Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra, conductor Jia Lu
Due Liriche Drammatiche Napoletane Toby Spence (tenor), Julian Milford (harp)
Movimento di Danza (first performance)
Sioned Williams (harp)
A Lament (first performance) Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), BBC Singers, conductor Simon Joly
Levommi il Mio Pensiero in Porte
Ov'era Margaret Baker (soprano), Piero Guarino (piano)
Rondo Veneziano (first UK performance)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Andrea Quinn
Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Susan Sharpe.
Tenor:
Toby Spence
Harp:
Julian Milford
Tenor:
Andrew Murgatroyd
Conductor:
Simon Joly
Soprano:
Margaret Baker
Piano:
Piero Guarino
Piano:
Rondo Veneziano
Conductor:
Andrea Quinn
Source: Radio Times

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