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The Early Music Show: Scarlatti and Corelli: Music for a Bourbon

Scarlatti and Corelli: Music for a Bourbon

02/05/2010

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Scarlatti and Corelli: Music for a Bourbon

Exploring the music and entertainments put on for Philip V of Spain in Naples in 1702.

Catherine Bott explores the stories surrounding the music and entertainments put on for the occasion of Philip V of Spain's visit to Naples in 1702.

In 1702, the 19-year-old Philip V of Spain came from his native France to Naples for a month. For this occasion, the Neopolitan based composer Alessandro Scarlatti was joined by the other great Italian composer of the day, Arcangelo Corelli, with mixed results! On the 350th anniversary of Scarlatti's birth, Catherine Bott explores the stories that surround the music and entertainments put on for this occasion.

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