The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-28, Air Date: 07/03/17
The lovely Marian Vespers of Cavalli; an examination of the feminine sacred and divine in the early 17th century; and Frescobaldi on accordion!.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-06, Air Date: 01/29/17
The Italian label will take us from music used for both sacred and secular pieces (with just a change of text), to the cusp of the Baroque, to a world premier look at an Italian Baroque master.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-46, Air Date: 11/07/16
Secular works by Juan Hidalgo, sacred music of Juan Bautista Gomes, and love songs from the 17th century court.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-21, Air Date: 05/16/16
Italy from 1580 to 1620 was the birthing ground of the Baroque; this week, the ensemble Constantinople, opera superstar Magdalena Kožená, and the father of Galileo.
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