The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-15, Air Date: 04/14/03
The first Millennium of Music program was Easter 1979, and the program began regular broadcasts Easter 1980 (its ancestor, Musica Antiqua, began in 1975). We celebrate our birthday quietly, as always, and in the Middle Ages, with groups close to our heart: Schola Hungarica, Anonymous 4, and (of recent fame for the Croatian music), Dialogos.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #04-37, Air Date: 09/06/04
NOTE: We return with our new season to present a mixed blessing—the new recording by the ensemble Anonymous 4 is dedicated to Hildegard von Bingen—but time with the ladies talking about why, after 18 glorious years, they have decided to disband as an ensemble.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-18, Air Date: 04/28/14
As with every Anonymous 4 recording from the beginning we celebrate that ladies’ latest, a return to 13th century France and the Montpelier Codex.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-39, Air Date: 9/18/06
In a follow-up to the best-selling program of Americana called American Angels, the ladies of Anonymous 4 have created (as they say) a “diary of our second pilgrimage to the roots of Anglo-American vocal music. The journey has led us to more of the most beautiful religious ballads, folk songs, folk hymns, and gospel songs ever to be found. Each sung poem contains a world of meaning in itself: together they tell a story of love and loss, hope and redemption.” The ladies will join us for this special program.
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