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La Gloriosa

BBC Radio 3
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A sequence of music at the Court of Isabella d'Este, the ruler of Mantua around 1500. The lutenist Anthony Rooley first sketches the social and historical background to the programme and then, with his Consort of Musicke, performs songs by several composers, including Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Antonio Capriolo, interspersed with Hexachord Recercare a 3 by Isabella's music tutor Johannes Martini.

(A public concert given in Hazelwood Castle, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, as part of the 1978 York Early Music Festival)

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Lutenist:
Anthony Rooley
Source: Radio Times

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