The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-17, Air Date: 04/15/19
Three views on the early Baroque, with music of Barbara Strozzi, a world-premiere recordings of counter-tenor arias, and the Grammy-award-winning Apollo’s Fire recording, “Songs of Orpheus."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #00-44, Air Date: 09/20/00
NOTE: Our series on Switzerland is made possible in part by PRS--Presence Switzerland; with additional support from Swiss Radio International, Switzerland Tourism, and the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C. For information on Swiss culture and tourism, Swiss music festivals, and Swiss events in your area, contact the Embassy's web site: www.swissemb.org
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-38, Air Date: 09/12/16
The founder of Hesperion XX and XXI is celebrated with his latest (“Granada 1013-1502") and his first: the newly-reissued 1981 “Battles and Laments” featuring the young Montserrat Figueras.
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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