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Carmina Burana
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Lowri Blake explores the history of well-known pieces of music. Carl Orff's celebration of life and love has become one of the most popular pieces in the concert hall.
Lowri Blake explores the history of well-known pieces of music. Carl Orff's celebration of life and love has become one of the most popular pieces in the concert hall. Lowri talks to performers, including conductor Marin Alsop, and the members of the chorus who have to get their tongues round the often raunchy Latin text. She sets the piece in its context in Nazi Germany in 1937, when it received its first performance.
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Tue 22 Jul 2008
13:30
麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
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