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Words and Music
Charles Hazlewood is joined by mezzo soprano, Pamela Helen Stephen, tenor, James Gilchrist and the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra for a workshop session exploring the many different ways composers over the past three hundred years have approached the setting of words in opera arias and in song.
Purcell: See, see the many coloured fields ("The Fairy Queen")
Handel: Svegliatevi ne core ("Julius Caesar")
Mozart: Dies bildnis ("The Magic Flute")
Berlioz: Spectre de la rose ("Nuits d'ete")
Britten: Midnight's Bell ("Nocturne")
Finzi: It was a lover and his lass.
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Role | Contributor |
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Composer | Henry Purcell |
Composer | George Frideric Handel |
Composer | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Composer | Hector Berlioz |
Composer | Benjamin Britten |
Composer | Gerald Finzi |
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