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Radio 3,04 Aug 2019,35 mins

The Sacred Works of Claude Le Jeune

The Early Music Show

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The life and sacred works of 16th-century composer Claude Le Jeune, active during ferocious religious wars between Roman Catholics and Protestants in France. Lucie Skeaping talks to Edward Wickham, Music Director at St Catharine's College Choir, Cambridge, and historian Tom Hamilton to unravel the composer's age and how it affected his music and that of his fellow Huguenot contemporaries.

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