Program: #14-44, Air Date: 10/27/14
From the obscure (Edmund Sturton) to the famous (the masses of William Byrd), recent releasescelebrate the glory of Tudor England.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #14-44, Air Date: 10/27/14
From the obscure (Edmund Sturton) to the famous (the masses of William Byrd), recent releasescelebrate the glory of Tudor England.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-42, Air Date: 10/13/14
Three new releases give us different perspectives on late 16th century music: from the motif of the earth trembling, to Freiburg Cathedral in 1594, to the always arresting Don Carlo Gesualdo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-52, Air Date: 12/18/06
Our friends The Orlando Consort have a beautiful project for Christmas 2006—we'll talk with founding member Donald Greig about the evolution of this repertoire from the earliest multi-voice writing, through the medieval carol, and into the great era of Franco-Flemish polyphony.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-45, Air Date: 10/30/06
Born in Brussels, the tragic life of Margaret of Austria was central not only to early 16th century European politics. Her adopted city of Mechlin was surrounded by the greatest composers of the day; on this new disc Dirk Snelling's Capilla Flamenca looks at her circle, including Josquin, Pierre de la Rue, Obrecht, and Agricola.
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