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Music Matters: Cavalli's L'Ormindo, Women Conductors, Scriabin

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29/03/2014

Cavalli's L'Ormindo, Women Conductors, Scriabin

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Cavalli's L'Ormindo, Women Conductors, Scriabin

Tom Service on Cavalli's L'Ormindo, a women's conducting course and the music of Scriabin.

Tom Service reviews a new production of Cavalli's opera L'Ormindo, learns about a new conducting course for women and surveys the life and music of composer Alexander Scriabin.

Tom Service reviews Kasper Holten's new production of Cavalli's opera L'Ormindo which has just opened in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe and finds out about Morley College's new course for women conductors. As the London Symphony Orchestra embark on an exploration of music by Alexander Scriabin, Tom talks to the pianist Dmitri Alexeev, the musicologist Marina Frolova-Walker and the conductor Valery Gergiev about the innovative Russian composer's life and music.

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