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Episode 3: Of Smoke and Mirrors

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

iii) Of Smoke and Mirrors
Arnold Őstman's recordings of the Mozart operas are highly prized authentic readings of these classical works. Today brings a chance to hear part of his Magic Flute and also to sample Johann Gottlieb Naumann's Swedish Nationalist opera 'Gustaf Wasa' - a great cause célèbre at a point in Gustavus III's reign when Sweden and Denmark were on a war footing. Show less

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