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Librettists
With Donald Macleod.
2: The most prolific librettist of the 18th century, Pietro Metastasio rose from humble beginnings to become poet laureate to the Austrian imperial court in Vienna. Music includes:
Vivaldi II Catone in Utica (excerpt) Marilyn Schmiege (mezzo), I Solisti Veneti , conductor Claudio Scimone
Handel Siroe , Re di Persia (excerpts) Soloists, Brewer Chamber Orchestra, conductor Rudolph Palmer
Mozart La Clemenza di Tito (excerpt) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Beethoven Ah! Perfido (excerpt) Cheryl Studer (soprano), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Pietro Metastasio
Unknown:
Marilyn Schmiege
Conductor:
Solisti Veneti
Conductor:
Claudio Scimone
Conductor:
Handel Siroe
Conductor:
Rudolph Palmer
Conductor:
Mozart La Clemenza
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Soprano:
Cheryl Studer
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Source: Radio Times

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