The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #00-44, Air Date: 09/20/00
NOTE: Our series on Switzerland is made possible in part by PRS--Presence Switzerland; with additional support from Swiss Radio International, Switzerland Tourism, and the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C. For information on Swiss culture and tourism, Swiss music festivals, and Swiss events in your area, contact the Embassy's web site: www.swissemb.org
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-08, Air Date: 02/13/17
A Vespers for St. Barbara, music for organ and percussion, and the first of many new releases for the Monteverdi 450th.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #04-04, Air Date: 01/19/04
NOTE: All of the music on this program was recorded live at the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. It features the Capella Currende and Concerto Palatino directed by Erik van Nevel, who argues that composers of the Lowlands defined European music in the Renaissance.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-04, Air Date: 01/15/06
Frequent Festival favorites Concerto Palatino give us two composers influenced by Gabrieli--Johann Stadlmayr (c. 1580-1648) and Giovanni Valentini (1582/3-1649).
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