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Composer of the Week: Rossini

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4/5. Paris - the Last Opera. Donald Macleod looks at Rossini's first sojourn in Paris, where, having launched the genre of grand opera, he composed his last work for the stage, before falling silent for nearly two decades. Overture: Le Siege de Corinthe LSO, conductor Claudio Abbado
En Proie a la Tristesse (Le Comte Ory, Act 1) Sumi Jo (soprano), Lyon Opera Choir and Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Guillaume Tell , Act 2 (end) Soloists, Ambrosian
Opera Chorus, RPO, conductor Lamberto Gardelli Inflammatus et Accensus; Quando Corpus ; Amen, in Sempiterna Saecula (Stabat Mater ) Soloists, Netherlands Radio Choir, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Chailly
Repeated on Wednesday at 12 midnight

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Guillaume Tell
Unknown:
Quando Corpus
Soloists:
Stabat Mater
Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Source: Radio Times

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