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Great Singers
With Peggy Reynolds. Before the Second World War, Mary Garden was the toast of Paris and, after it, the toast of America. But she ended her days penniless in a psychiatric hospital. Including excerpts from: Debussy Pelleas et Melisande Mary Garden (soprano), the Composer (piano)
Debussy Ariettes Oubliées Dawn Upshaw (soprano), James Levine (piano)
Gounod Faust Cheryl Studer
(soprano), Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
INVENTING AMERICA

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds.
Unknown:
Mary Garden
Soprano:
Melisande Mary Garden
Piano:
James Levine
Soprano:
Cheryl Studer
Conductor:
Michel Plasson
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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