The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #24-35, Air Date: 08/26/24
The Stylus Phantasticus, Francesco Cavalli’s Grand Venetian Mass for the Treaty of Paris, and music for Lady Louise.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-03, Air Date: 01/11/21
Music from times of plague from the Middle Ages to the early Baroque, with some curative sounds added in.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-43, Air Date: 10/12/20
Music for krummhorn ensemble, secular songs by Frescobaldi, and the remarkable instrumental music of Carlo Farina.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-49, Air Date: 11/28/16
The secular side of the early Baroque with music from Cremona, consort works by Carlo Farina, and the early songs about Orpheus that were so inspirational in the creation of the art form of the opera.
Read more and hear this show…