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The Two Mandolins

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Louis de Bernieres evoked the romance of the mandolin when he plucked at a million heart strings with his novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. The mandolin is often dismissed as a novelty, but Captain Corelli was a virtuoso who wanted to compose concertos. In Naples at the turn of the centurythe real-life Raffaele Calace wrote over 170 mandolin compositions. Alison Stephens journeys to the workshop where the grandson of the great man still makes mandolins for export. Producer Charlie Taylor

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Raffaele Calace
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Alison Stephens
Producer:
Charlie Taylor
Source: Radio Times

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