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Composer of the Week - The Neapolitan Golden Age

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Donald Macleod explores the remarkable music of the Neapolitan school of composers of the 17th and 18th centuries

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Composer of the Week - The Neapolitan Golden Age - Episode 1

Donald Macleod explores the new opportunities offered to Neapolitan musicians following the death in 1725 of the great Alessandro Scarlatti.

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Composer of the Week - The Neapolitan Golden Age - Episode 2

Donald Macleod explores the music of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, whose death at the age of 26 gave him a mythical status, causing many works to be falsely ascribed to him.

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Composer of the Week - The Neapolitan Golden Age - Episode 3

Donald Macleod follows the lives of some of the young graduates of the conservatoire in Naples who carried their training across Europe.

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Composer of the Week - The Neapolitan Golden Age - Episode 4

Donald Macleod explores some of the music that would have been heard at the comedy theatre that the king had ordered built in the 1770s.

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Composer of the Week - The Neapolitan Golden Age - Episode 5

Donald Macleod explores music by the prolific but unfortunate Domenico Cimarosa, who overcame poverty to establish an international opera career.

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