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Music Matters: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gesualdo 450, Vaughan Williams

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12/03/2016

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gesualdo 450, Vaughan Williams

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Gesualdo 450, Vaughan Williams

Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to explore the radical 16th-century composer Gesualdo.

Petroc Trelawny travels to Naples to learn more about the notorious composer Carlo Gesualdo. Plus the legacy of the late Nikolaus Harnoncourt and a biography of Vaughan Williams.

Presented by Petroc Trelawny.

To mark the 450th anniversary of Carlo Gesualdo's birth, Petroc travels to Naples to explore one of the most notorious composers in history, whose music still sounds radical to audiences today. He speaks to Gesualdo expert Dinko Fabris and Cesare Corsi, the librarian of the Conservatorio di Musica 'San Pietro a Majella', which holds the largest collection of Gesualdo prints in Europe. Petroc also talks to Peter Phillips, the director of the Tallis Scholars, and soprano Clare Norburn, who has written a new play about Gesualdo. After the news of the Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt's death, Petroc Trelawny talks to Nicholas Kenyon and conductor Ivor Bolton about his legacy. And Petroc reviews a new biography of Vaughan Williams by Keith Alldritt, with the composer Anthony Payne and Vaughan Williams expert Ceri Owen.

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