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Thirty minutes of uninterrupted music, including a Caruso classic plus operatic scenes from Leoncavallo and Verdi.

In Tune's specially curated playlist starts with Enrico Caruso singing a classic Verdi aria, and continues with the Prelude to Leoncavallo's opera 'I Medici', followed by music from the time of the Medici by Giulio Caccini. Roberto Alagna sings one of Caruso's hit songs (by British-French composer Helen Rhodes aka Guy d'Hardelot), and we have a touch of faux-Italy in the Grand Tarantelle by Louis Moreau Gottshalk. The real thing is provided by folk band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, contrasted with Godowski's arrangement of a Chopin tarantelle. We close with a scene from Verdi's Il Corsaro.

30 minutes

Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto 'La donna 猫 mobile'

    Singer: Enrico Caruso.
    • PEARL GEMM.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    I Medici (Prelude to Act 1)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Guy d鈥橦ardelot

    Parce que (Because)

    Performer: Roberto Alagna. Performer: Orchestre national d'脦le-de-France. Performer: Yvan Cassar.
    • Caruso 1873.
    • Sony.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Grand Tarantelle

    Performer: Eugene List. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Samuel Adler.
    • Turnabout.
  • Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

    Ziccate

    • Quaranta.
    • Ponderosa.
    • 09.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study No 3 in A minor after Chopin, 'Tarantella'

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Warner Classics.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    S矛, de' corsari il fulmine (Il corsaro)

    Singer: Vittorio Grigolo. Singer: Danilo Rigosa. Orchestra: Coro di Teatro Regio Parma. Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi.
    • Vittorio Grigolo - The Italian Tenor.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Jul 2020 19:00

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