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Radio 3,13 Dec 2020,19 mins

Light in the Darkness: Chiaroscuro

The Early Music Show

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As part of Radio 3’s Light in the Darkness season, illuminating winter, Lucie Skeaping explores depictions of chiaroscuro - a technique used in visual art that produces striking musical contrasts too. With music by Gesualdo, Dowland, de Rore, Handel, Graupner and Haydn.

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