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Tyrants
Donald Macleod presents musical portraits of five absolute rulers famed more for their evil deeds than for their good work.
2: Nero. Nero has passed into history as the emperor who fiddled while Rome burned. But is the legend true?
Music includes excerpts from
Handel's Agrippina, Monteverdi's L'lncoronazione di Poppea,
Mascagni's Nerone and Anton Rubinstein 's Nero.

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod
Unknown:
Anton Rubinstein
Source: Radio Times

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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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