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Discovering Music - Monteverdi's Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

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In a programme made as part of the 2008 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, Robert Hollingworth and his group I Fagiolini explore the background and music to Monteverdi's operatic scena The Battle of Tancredi and Clorinda, for which the composer claimed to use a new form of musical expression.