First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
With Donald Macleod. After his wife's death, Monteverdi has been left to care for their two young sons, but loses his job in Mantua. A position becomes available in Venice. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod plays Monteverdi's dramatic music theatre piece, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and describes how a plague wiped out one third of the population of Venice. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Donald Macleod plays a selection of music from Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals, Of War and Love, which contains some of the most dramatic music the world had ever heard. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
We hear two examples of Monteverdi's ability to exploit the expressive power of religious music and explore his penultimate operatic masterpiece, a version of Homer's Odyssey. Show more
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
In the last of our programmes about Monteverdi in Venice, Donald Macleod looks at the composer's final masterwork, the thrillingly immoral Coronation of Poppea. Show more
