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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Drottningholm

Composer of the Week: Drottningholm: Episode 3: Of Smoke and Mirrors

Of Smoke and Mirrors

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Episode 3: Of Smoke and Mirrors

Drottningholm

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Drottningholm, Of Smoke and Mirrors

Donald Macleod talks about former Drottnigholm music director Arnold Ostman.

Donald Macleod talks to mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter about former Drottnigholm music director Arnold Ostman and also explores Swedish nationalist opera Gustaf Vasa.

iii) Of Smoke and Mirrors
Arnold Őstman's recordings of the Mozart operas are highly prized authentic readings of these classical works. Today brings a chance to hear part of his Magic Flute and also to sample Johann Gottlieb Naumann's Swedish Nationalist opera 'Gustaf Wasa' - a great cause célèbre at a point in Gustavus III's reign when Sweden and Denmark were on a war footing.

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.

Donald Macleod explores the history and music connected with the Drottningholm Opera House

Donald Macleod explores the history and music connected with the Drottningholm Opera House in Stockholm. It flourished in the 18th century, especially during the reign of King Gustavus III

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