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Composers of the Week:The Neapolitan Connection

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3/5. Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-59) in Berlin Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the mid-18th-century Neapolitan genre of opera seria and the courts outside Italy where its composers flourished.
Graun Montezuma (1755) (excerpts)
Ambrosian Singers, London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Richard Bonynge Cesare e Cleopatra (1742) (excerpts)
Janet Williams (soprano: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt), Concerto Koln, conductor Rene Jacobs Repeated on Tuesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Heinrich Graun
Conductor:
Richard Bonynge
Soprano:
Janet Williams
Conductor:
Rene Jacobs
Montezuma, Emperorof Mexico:
Lauris Elms (mezzo)
Eupaforice, betrothed to Montezuma:
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Fernando Cortez, Spanish conquistador:
Monica Sinclair (soprano)
Source: Radio Times

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