The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-22, Air Date: 05/30/22
Two recent releases feature the choir of Notre Dame, creating music associated with the great cathedral since the fire; plus late medieval chant from Limoges and Northern European capitals.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-13, Air Date: 03/28/22
We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano to his 2017 Monteverdi 450th anniversary project Night: Stories of Lovers and Warriors.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-09, Air Date: 02/28/22
We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, to early 17th century Italian cantatas, and then to some lesser-recorded Bach keyboard works.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-34, Air Date: 08/16/21
Considered perhaps the finest Monteverdi interpreter of our time, the Italian director of the Concerto Italiano guides us through the vast 1610 Marian Vespers.
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