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Choir Works: The Tears of St Peter

BBC Radio 3
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The third of four programmes in which Jeremy Summerly considers musical reactions to the words and actions of the popes. Today, he introduces music connected with the reforms of the Council of Trent in 1562 and the changing fortunes of the Sistine Chapel itself, including various versions of Allegri's famous setting of Psalm 51 and Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli.

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Presenter:
Jeremy Summerly
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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