The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #11-11, Air Date: 03/07/11
Last spring, we looked at the large book/recording packages by Jordi Savall dealing with Jerusalem and the Cathar Heresy; this year we will catch up first with his Grammy-award winning disc dedicated to the rise of the Borgia family.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-38, Air Date: 09/13/10
We come back to the upstate New York duo with three recent discs: "La Rota Fortuna" (music in honor of Spinacino); "Au pres de Vous" (French 16th century chansons); and "Harmonia Caelestis" (16th c. sacred Spanish repertory).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-50, Air Date: 12/07/09
Sacred motets performed by the ensemble Nordic Voices are interspersed with organ works by Buxtehude, de Grigny, Bach, and others
from performances by Terje Winge and Bjørn Boysen (plus the neo-mystical project "Siwan").
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Program: #09-43, Air Date: 10/19/09
A three-CD set by Jordi Savall featuring music by three great composers of the Spanish Golden Age: Morales, Guerrero, and Victoria.
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the recording Maestros del Siglio de Oro, a three-CD compilation with Hesperion XX and La Capella Reial de Catalunya directed by Jordi Savall. It is on the Alia Vox label, and is CD #AVSA 9867 A/C.
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