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This week,
Michael Berkeley 's guest is the distinguished musicologist and pianist Charles Rosen , whose book The Classical
Style has proved a seminal text for the study of the Viennese masters. His musical choices range from a 16th-century English vocal piece from the Eton
Choirbook through Bach and Bellini to the cataclysmic Immolation scene in Wagner's Gotterdammerung.
A Classic Arts production

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Pianist:
Charles Rosen
Source: Radio Times

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