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Composers of the Week: Forgotten Giants of 18th-Century Opera

BBC Radio 3
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The Divine
Pergolesi Paul Guinery introduces music by the most frequently performed of this week's composers, including arias from it Maestro di Musica and Lo
Frate Innamorato , and the first part of his most famous work, La Serva
Padrona, in a Hungarian performance with Katalin Farkas as the crafty servant girl and Jozsef Gregor as her grumpy and elderly employer. Plus arias from one of the big hits of the 1760s, Niccolo Plcclni 's La Cecchina. Repeated next Wednesday 11.30pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Pergolesi Paul Guinery
Unknown:
Frate Innamorato
Unknown:
Katalin Farkas
Unknown:
Jozsef Gregor
Unknown:
Niccolo Plcclni
Source: Radio Times

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