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The Full Works Concert
8PM, CLASSIC FM
Halfway through writing an opera – and during a visit to his pregnant wife, who was expecting their sixth child – Mozart dashed off Ave Verum Corpus. The work was written for the celebration of Corpus Christi; a lesser composer would have toiled for months without producing so perfect a piece. Catherine Bott concludes this selection of recordings by the Chamber Orchestra of
Europe with this masterpiece.