The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-17, Air Date: 04/15/19
Three views on the early Baroque, with music of Barbara Strozzi, a world-premiere recordings of counter-tenor arias, and the Grammy-award-winning Apollo’s Fire recording, “Songs of Orpheus."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-37, Air Date: 09/03/18
The extraordinary series of recordings of Monteverdi conducted by Harry Christophers continues with the second CD of material from the posthumous 1650 collection that includes the Mass for 4 Voices.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-35, Air Date: 08/16/18
A Sacred oratorio by Luigi Rossi, a world premiere of a Plague Mass by Orazio Benevoli, and the earliest use of the violin (with voice!).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-48, Air Date: 11/18/17
Since it’s founding in 1980, this label has celebrated early music; this week: Tinctoris, a Mary Magdalene oratorio, and the role of the hurdy-gurdy in the French baroque.
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