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Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Gesualdo

Gesualdo

08/09/2013

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Gesualdo

Catherine Bott and Professor Glenn Watkins talk about the controversial life of Gesualdo.

Catherine Bott is joined by Gesualdo expert Professor Glenn Watkins to talk about the controversial life of the composer in the year which marks 400 years since his death.

The infamous life of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo is full of drama, intrigue and death.  Among accusations of a double murder, witchcraft and masochism stands an extraordinary body of music with its own tortured chromatic sound world.  To mark the 400th anniversary of the composer's death, Catherine Bott talks with renowned Gesualdo expert Professor Glenn Watkins to explore whether an understanding of the time in which the isolated Prince lived can cast any further light on his seemingly bizarre life.

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