The Early Music Show

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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome

Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Alessandro Scarlatti in Rome

Lucie Skeaping explores Alessandro Scarlatti’s relationship with the city of Rome.

Alessandro Scarlatti twice lived in Rome, first working for the self-exiled Swedish Queen Christina, and again at the end of his life, composing some of his best music.

Sicilian-born composer Alessandro Scarlatti had a love/hate relationship with the city of Rome.  In the early part of his career, he was employed there by the self-exiled Queen Christina of Sweden, and he returned to the city for the last six years of his life, composing some of his finest work there.  Lucie Skeaping explores Scarlatti's Roman years and some of the music he produced during his time in the Italian capital.

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