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Composer of the Week: Monteverdi

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

With Simon Heighes.
Venetian Carnival. In Monteverdi's day - as now - tourists flocked each year to sample the spectacular pleasures of the Venetian Carnival. Monteverdi provided music for all sorts of Venetian festivities - sacred and secular, private and public. This programme includes smaller-scale vocal pieces like Zefiro Torna , Fugge, Fugge and Gira il Nemio Insidioso plus the magnificent Gloria composed to give thanks for the end of the Great Plague of 1631. Repeated from last Wednesday

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Simon Heighes.
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Zefiro Torna
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Nemio Insidioso
Source: Radio Times

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