Episode 4
Donald Macleod visits Venice for this special series. He listens music associated with a single day, 21 November 1631, when Venice celebrated deliverance from the plague.
Donald Macleod visits Venice for this special series on Monteverdi.
All the music in this programme is associated with a single day, 21 November 1631, when Venice celebrated deliverance from the plague which had wiped out a third of its population.
Gloria a 7 voci (Selva morale e spirituale)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (director)
Ab aeterno ordinata sum (Selva morale e spirituale)
David Thomas (bass)
Parley of Instruments
Roy Goodman, Peter Holman (directors)
Crucifixus; Et resurrexit; Et iterum; Beatus vir; Laudate Dominum; Dixit Dominus (Selva morale e spirituale)
Soloists
Cantus Colln
Concerto Palatino
Konrad Junghanel (lute and director).
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- Thu 16 Oct 200812:00BBC Radio 3
- Thu 16 Oct 200822:00BBC Radio 3
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