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Composers of the Week:The Neapolitan Connection

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1/5. Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783) in Dresden. This week Donald Macleod explores the mid-18th-century Neapolitan genre of opera seria and the cities and courts outside Italy where its composers flourished. Hasse Cleofide (1731) (excerpts)
Rheinische Kantorei , Capella Coloniensis , conductor William Christie
Producer Piers Burton-Page Repeated Sunday 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Johann Adolf Hasse
Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
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Hasse Cleofide
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Rheinische Kantorei
Conductor:
Capella Coloniensis
Conductor:
William Christie
Alexanderthe Great, Emperor of Macedonia:
Dominique Vlsse (mezzo)
Porus, ruler of an Indian kingdom:
Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor)
Cleophis, queen of another Indian kingdom:
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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