Classical radio host: Aria

Classical radio host, warm, refined, and cultured

Prompt: A warm, refined female voice for a classical-music radio program. Her elegant mid-register is knowledgeable and gracious, treating each piece as a treasure, cultured and calm. There's a let-me-tell-you-about-this-one warmth in her tone. The sound of a host who makes a centuries-old symphony feel freshly, personally alive.

Script: This next piece was written in a single feverish week by a composer who was at the time quite certain no one would ever hear it. He was wrong of course. 200 years later here we are. Listen for the second movement especially, that aching little melody in the strings.