On B.B.C. Radio 3. You're on the train if you're travelling between bombing in London next week well now on Radio 3 it's time for the final episode of composer of the week with Donald McLeod who's been exploring the life of the music of Francesca cine this week I'm indeed her circle in the many G. Court of 17th century Florence ready. Yes. Show your beloved cheeks your key a starry eyes you'll sweet mouth your golden hair and your Cinnabar lips Dispy again to Glen Gemma the behind Francesca cine was sung limb by the countertenor Raphael a play with the instrumentalist got a gun and they could mimic. As a woman in 17th century Florence kitschy an event itself in an enviable situation her status always more vulnerable than a man in a similar position of the native G. Court where her 1st husband died in 1626 the laws of Florence dictated that her future would be decided by others essentially it was down to the medically princess's to arrange a 2nd marriage for her a widow could be forced to declare her willingness to remarry on the evening of her husband's funeral despite her standing as one of the most important figures in the musical life of the medicine Court of the time as a widow Francesca reverted to being a chattel an object of the court's disposal she would have to struggle for even such basic human rights as the custody of her daughter the child of our 1st marriage in the year after her husband died Francesca who was $42.00 was married again to an older man in looka a new husband represented a step up the social ladder domicile Rafaeli was a 56 year old minor nobleman an amateur musician with substantial interests and property including a villa a mile outside Luka the references to him at the time as again which evidently suggests that he may have been gay nonetheless a son was born to the couple the following year Francesca now used to connections in Florence his musical establishment to support the literary academy her husband was involved in to produce a lavish series of stage musical entertainments for the 1628 carnival season it seemed likely that Francesca would have composed some of the music for the event although none of it survives today. Well here next 3 more pieces from the collection she published in 1618 sung by Eleanor Jackie Fady with capella decent Emory Adelie and Giulini directed by Gianluca Vialli the 1st guy Morsi on Newdow tells us that that famous image of naked Cupid flying around with wings on his back not finding shelter anywhere is nonsense the truth is that he descends through the eyes into the hot and there makes his home then comes the question Kato fatty What have I done to you that you should long for my death because I don't love you don't you know that I live only because of your beauty the last of this trio of songs is known so sequels Saudis are I don't know if that smile sneers at me or means reassurance if that fixed look attracts me or repels me. Ah. It is the. People all is it and it is. Rich. Kid come on. Mom. If. You need a. C law. The news. Comes. To. Keep. Coming. To live. There's. Nothing. Like. A. Mother. Love her. Living in a. Live. She love. Movie coming new. Age. Did. She. Come. 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Francesca seems to have taken advantage of a new married life to start performing and in the US to self and private study she evidently didn't want to sing anymore but this new pattern of life didn't last long and after a little more than 2 years of marriage in 1630 Her husband died Francesca found herself a widow for a 2nd time but this time in a very much improved financial position she was now in her mid forty's rich and independent to mothers will was very generous to her bequeathing her control of his estates and giving her the authority to oversee the education of their son he gave Francesca a priority over his children from a previous marriage and even left money to provide a dowry for Francesca's daughter margarita. The one cloud on the horizon was over the question of the future of her daughter and who would have responsibility for Margarita was still under the protection of catchiness former employers the middle and Francesca was deeply apprehensive about her being passed into the hands of strangers Francesca's fears were fueled when a representative of the military came to visit them in Luca and as she put it writing to a friend spoke to my daughter as if I were not her mother or when not even in the world writing a long letter to the 1st secretary of the medically court case he confided the extremity of her fears and went on to ask permission to return to her Tuscan homeland not having committed crimes for which I deserved exile her petition was accepted and the court gave her control over her daughter's destiny but her return to Florence was riveted by successive outbreaks of plague 1st in Luka where 8000 people died and then Florence with consequent periods of quality in which remained in force until early in 1634 when at last more than 3 years after her husband's death Francesca and Margarita were able to return to Florence Francesca kitschy any composed very little sacred music but a few of her pieces have been recorded and we have here 2 of them for the 2nd time this week where he has setting of an ecstatic prayer to Maria don't shame area that so sweet name this time sung by the soprano regular convent with the ensemble as he Dario before that will hear her setting of the 4th century Latin him yes who could roam their genome. 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Not a chimera a by a Francesca catchy NE was before that by the soprano regatta can run with the own so noble The Daisy Daddy you. when francesca return to florence whether 11 year old daughter marguerite are at our 5 year old son to maz are they found the life of the aging granda just christine's court revolving increasingly around the dominican ministry of santa croce known as lakra jetta christine had a disabled daughter vittoria who'd entered the community some years earlier to accommodate the princess atter servants the medically architects built a pen knots or next door with its own garden at the private passage way to the neighboring church so she got attend to her devotions over the succeeding years luck roche et at became home do wall the on married meditate princesses the usual restrictions on nuns didn't apply here keshi need biographer says an q sick says that contemporary accounts indicate that in the 16 thirty's luck or a chair to in bodied all the abuses and female monastic life but which the diocese of florence had long been famous they seem to have had a high old time of it swapping books and clothes and jewelry and giving lavish dinners the princess is electro chitter enjoyed then music to borrowing cost you miss when the court for their staged at attainments catch ini moving into a house behind the convent was employed to teach be tory and the other medically princesses music to perform for them and all those she wasn't supposed to in the very relaxed atmosphere that prevailed she instructed the nuns to but she drew the line at letting her young daughter perform for the court on the grounds that performing in public marguerite or could there by lose her future and have that much more trouble either marrying or becoming in none Well it's written into Francesca's 1618 publication with these 3 songs which is seems to me were unlikely to been used to instruct the nuns that they may well have entertained the princesses Okuma Bella is a peon of praise to the beloved's beautiful golden hands in the only distro we have a lesson in sexuality and seeing a man and a woman a picture and writhing around each other mirroring the lustful words as they sing of destroying themselves and burning with design finally in Seal men vote we have meant for a broken heart if I leave I will die a last cruel farewell Shannon Mosa is the singer. 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Online and digital this week exploring the music and the world of Francesca kitschy me she and her contemporaries at the 17th century met a G. Court in Florence operating within the closeted and pampered world of the lacrosse at a convent in Florence Francesca's music was no longer heard in public though she didn't any more have the prominent status at court she'd once enjoyed still had her own estate and was still in a relatively secure financial position her relationship with the Grand Duchess Kristine Deloraine was not what it had been though Christine was now in her late seventy's and just before Christmas 1636 as she wrote to a friend beginning to suffer the mishaps that age brings Eventually she was confined to bed in constant pain nearly blind and with her hearing failing Francesca petition her to request that she be made a lady of the court but Christine declined and Francesca was destined to remain to the last A servant though and on and one Christine died just before Christmas 1636 leaving Francesca's daughter Margarita had been under her protection in an uncertain position. We'll hear next some sacred music by one of the other composers the Grand Duchess supported Marco de Galliano the 1st of these motet admit. Tells of that admirable exchange by which the creator of human kind taking on a living body has given his data in abundance and lost their IT languor is a knowledge is out truly he himself Burra griefs carried our solos by his wounds we are healed. The we. Ensembles acro down the directed by a show as he gets in those nights by mucker Di Galliano director of music to the medicine court in Florence until his death in 6043. Following the death of the Grand Duchess Christine although Francesca and her daughter continued to be provided for by the medical court and to live in the same house behind lockers at a convent into the 1640s she seems to have devoted the rest of her life working to ensure provision for the future of her 2 children managing her late husband's estate on behalf of her son and trying to build up a substantial diary for her daughter not always successfully the kind of toughness we've heard people characterize or with emerges in these years as she goes to court over financial matters as we enter the sixty's forty's Francesca gradually disappears from the official medical records the last glimpse we have of her is a letter to her old patron the genie Orsini planning a business trip to Rome and asking to be accommodated at his palace outside the city the answer was No the Duke of sports and all his people were already staying there Francesca's disappearance is then complete to the extent that we don't know when or where she died and these ical legacy was carried on by her daughter Margarita she entered the convent on Sunday a role model Acosta where she took the name sister plus a Democrat and where into the middle of the century she enjoyed the reputation of one of the finest singers in Florence we learned today with the few recorded fragments there are of her mother's most successful work the staged entertainment and leave it at sea on a day that is all about Sheena the liberation of Raja from the island of the sorceress out Gina. They. Hold. Water. On the. Lawn. On. Home lot of. Of August. Oh you. Are now. In those excerpts from that even it's due to Jed O'Dell Liezel of the Cina by Francesca kitschy me we heard the Toronto consort well who even joy discovering this week what was for me a previously unknown musical voice has been one notable absence in the picture been able to give you this remarkable woman and use it rather a yarn in Kusum since we haven't been able to offer you a really decent chunk of our most important work the stage work often referred to as an opera but which isn't that even at Sione it would be terrific to see a commercial recording made of the music which we had he made. Well all the details of the music we played by Francesca cine are available on the website following the links from the Radio 3 Home Page this week programs will be available for 30 days after the broadcast on the radio i Player after that they'll be available as free downloadable podcast following the links from the Radio 3 home page join me again if you can next week for another composer of the week composer of the week was presented by Donald MacLeod and produced in Cardiff by Lou quick look and on Monday Donald opens a week of explorations into Sergei Rachmaninoff she is in America from the end of the 1st World War to his death in 1943 and he discovers that it wasn't always a happy exile for the perpetually homesick composer who had to spend most of his time there earning a living as a performer joined on with the 1st program on Monday at midday. The classical music in the beginning I didn't connect it didn't resonate with me. Carlos Acosta dreamt of being a famous footballer but his father had other ideas I rather be in the streets on how I land break dancing and yet I was forced to do these silly movies because of course are talks to me about his 30 years in dance and his new life as a choreographer and BALLET COMPANY DIRECTOR these are not dancers they're men basically knowledge findings by a certain stereotype sound of dance with Carlos Acosta on B.B.C. Radio 3 tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. 9293 F.M. On digital radio and online this is B.B.C. Radio 3 in a couple of minutes we get back to the Northern Ireland operas festival of voice for the last of this week's series of lunchtime concerts and then afternoon concert begins at 2 with the B.B.C. Scottish Symphony Orchestra giving the opening concert of they see Islami all Festival performance recorded last Friday but that 1 o'clock it's time for the latest B.B.C. News read by said zones the bricks that Secretary Dominic rubber.