The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #08-18, Air Date: 04/21/08
The Basel-based ensemble La Villanella shares vocal works by great women composers of the early Italian Baroque--some familiar, like Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, and some less-frequently heard, like Caterina Assandra and Vittoria Aleotti.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-35, Air Date: 08/22/11
The remarkable French label gives us three recent recordings looking at women composers in the early Italian Baroque, Venice in 1677, and a reconstruction of Vivaldi's Vespers for St. Mark.
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