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Carnevale: Venice and Vino

Hannah French and New York-based historian Ron Merlino explore Venetian music specifically associated with wine and the wine trade, a mainstay of 17th-century Venice's economy.

New York-based wine historian Ron Merlino joins Hannah French to explore the Carnevale season in Baroque Venice. There's music specifically associated with wine, and the wine trade - a mainstay of the 17th-century Venetian economy.

Hannah will be tasting three white wine varieties intrinsically linked to music by Cavalli, Monteverdi, Pallavicino and Cesti.

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42 minutes

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Sun 8 Feb 202617:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Zefiro torna

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar. Singer: Núria Rial. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky.
    • ERATO.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Director: Paul Agnew.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    Mira questi duo lumi (Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo)

    Choir: Cappella Mediterranea. Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón. Ensemble: Clematis Ensemble. Singer: Mariana Flores.
    • RICERCAR.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Sono l'altre Regine (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria)

    Singer: Gareth Treseder. Singer: Gianluca Buratto. Singer: Lucile Richardot. Singer: Michal Czerniawski. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    Quanto e soave (Rosinda)

    Ensemble: La Sfera Armoniosa. Conductor: Mike Fentross. Singer: Fulvio Bettini.
    • Ludi Musici.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    Galliard (Rosinda)

    Ensemble: La Sfera Armoniosa. Conductor: Mike Fentross.
    • Ludi Musici.

  • Francesco Cavalli

    Sinfonia (L'Eliogabalo)

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • ERATO.

  • Carlo Pallavicino

    E pur caro il poter dire (Vespasiano)

    Singer: Filippo Mineccia. Ensemble: Nereydas. Director: Javier Ulises Illán.
    • GLOSSA.

  • Antonio Cesti

    Sono un soldato, sono un bevitore (Orontea)

    Singer: Gastone Sarti. Singer: Cettina Cadelo. Ensemble: Concerto Vocale. Conductor: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 27 Feb 202214:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sun 8 Feb 202617:00
    BBC Radio 3

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