The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-38, Air Date: 09/19/22
The Cappella Mediterranea has a recent two-CD compilation of the complete madrigals for one and two voices by this composer who “broke the rules of counterpoint to express heightened emotion.”
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-29, Air Date: 07/06/20
More music by women composers (secular this time), including Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, and Julie Pinel.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-07, Air Date: 02/04/19
Sacred works of Manuel Cardoso, popular music for harp, and the Cappella Mediterranea with music of the Golden Age.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-21, Air Date: 05/14/12
Recent looks at the early 17th century Italian school, with music by Provenzale, Falvetti, and Ferrari.
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