The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #06-48, Air Date: 11/20/06
Born in Geneva, Stephan MacLeod studied in Lausanne--in a recent recording he joined the brilliant Maria Cristina Kiehr and Concerto Soave in some of the delightful little musical "Scherzi musicali" of Claudio Monteverdi.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-14, Air Date: 03/27/06
Finally released on CD, the concerts by the Currende Ensemble directed by Erik van Nevel tracing the great artist's journeys from Antwerp to London to Italy to his return home again.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-25, Air Date: 06/11/07
We have heard the chorus in the past in works by Senfl and Carissimi--this week, far more obscure seicento composers.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-02, Air Date: 01/02/08
We continue this great reconstruction of the Monteverdi Marian Vespers, with soloists Johanette Zomer and Amaryllis Dieltiens, sopranos; and Andreas Weller and Julian Podger, tenors.
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