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Composer of the Week: Lassus

BBC Radio 3
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(died 14 June 1594) 2: Requiem for the New Orpheus
To mark the anniversary day, Mark Brown conducts Pro Cantione Antiqua in Lassus's Requiem for four voices. The movements are interspersed with readings from eulogies and memorials to the composer, and with instrumental elaborations of his much-admired setting of the chanson Susanne un Jour by composers from all over Europe.
Presented by Hugh Keyte.

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Mark Brown
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Cantione Antiqua
Presented By:
Hugh Keyte.
Source: Radio Times

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