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Composer of the Week Monteverdi

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Simon Heighes.
Music for a Venetian Nobleman. One of Monteverdi's most important Venetian patrons was Senator Giovanni Mocenigo. Today's programme includes some of the experimental works performed at his palace and later published as the Eighth Book of Madrigals. In //
Combattimento di Tancredi the new expressive and highly charged music moved its first audience - claimed
Monteverdi - to tears and then to rapturous applause.
Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight
SOUNDING THE CENTURY

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Unknown:
Simon Heighes.
Unknown:
Giovanni Mocenigo.
Source: Radio Times

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