The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #20-22, Air Date: 05/18/20
Sacred works from convents and courts by women composers in the 17th century.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-02, Air Date: 01/01/06
Women composers achieved more fame as composers at this time than any since the Troubadour era. The Concert Soave featuring the brilliant Maria Cristina Kiehr treat us to music by Barbara Strozzi, Caterina Assandra, Isabella Leonarda, Francesca Caccini, and other remarkable women in this concert.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-18, Air Date: 04/21/08
The Basel-based ensemble La Villanella shares vocal works by great women composers of the early Italian Baroque--some familiar, like Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, and some less-frequently heard, like Caterina Assandra and Vittoria Aleotti.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-35, Air Date: 08/22/11
The remarkable French label gives us three recent recordings looking at women composers in the early Italian Baroque, Venice in 1677, and a reconstruction of Vivaldi's Vespers for St. Mark.
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