The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-01, Air Date: 01/02/23
The ensemble Cappella Romana takes us to 1400, when Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, who sought foreign aid for besieged Constantinople, spent Christmas at the court of King Henry IV.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-26, Air Date: 06/21/21
The extraordinary Cappella Romana with the hymns of Kassiani, Jordi Savall’s exploration of the medieval fiddle, and Diabolus in Musica looks at musical tributes to Ockeghem.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-25, Air Date: 06/08/20
The superb West Coast ensemble gives us music of Renaissance Crete and Cyprus, plus music as it would have been heard in the Hagia Sophia.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-43, Air Date: 10/15/07
The first of two programs from the brilliant Portland, Oregon ensemble that explores music of the ancient Orthodox church--this program gives us eastern and western laments on the fall in 1453 of the 1000-year-old empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
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