The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #24-19, Air Date: 05/06/24
The recently-formed Ghent-based ensemble Dionysos Now! has taken on the project of recording the complete sacred music of Adrian Willaert. Volume 5, “In memoriam Adriaen Willaert,” consists of the composer’s last work, and the many tributes to him after his death.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #24-12, Air Date: 03/18/24
The latest from the London Oratory Schola Cantorum gives us familiar figures from Venice (the Gabrielis, Monteverdi) as well as the less-often heard works of Giovanni Croce and Giacomo Finetti.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-24, Air Date: 06/07/21
Carles Magraner and his Capella de Ministers show how the early 16th century rebellion against nobility inspired martial music for the next decades.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-11, Air Date: 03/02/20
Orazio Columbano, Stefano Bernardi, Amadeo Freddi.
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