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Spirit of the Age

BBC Radio 3
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"... the enamoured song, Which used to soothe all wishes of my thought.
(Purgatorio)
Dante's writings contain many references to the troubadours and offer tantalising glimpses of chant and dance music which is now lost to us.
Christopher Page and Martin Best discuss what his works reveal about music and poetry of that time, and extracts from La Vita Nuova and La Divina
Commedia are read by Derek Jacobi.
Producer Kate Bolton

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Read By:
Derek Jacobi.
Producer:
Kate Bolton
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

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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