The Sacred Works of Claude Le Jeune
The life and works of 16th-century French composer Claude Le Jeune.
The Early Music Show · BBC Radio 3
August 4, 201935m 14s
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Show Notes
The life and sacred works of 16th-century composer Claude Le Jeune, active during ferocious religious wars between Roman Catholics and Protestants in France. Lucie Skeaping talks to Edward Wickham, Music Director at St Catharine's College Choir, Cambridge, and historian Tom Hamilton to unravel the composer's age and how it affected his music and that of his fellow Huguenot contemporaries.