The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-07, Air Date: 02/13/23
The brilliant lute performer and teacher Hopkinson Smith joins us (for the first time in some 40 years!) with his latest project, dedicated to Francesco Spinacino and Joan Ambrosio Dalza.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-03, Air Date: 01/11/16
Secular music from the Naxos family of recordings with popular songs of Italy, lute music of Poland, and music for wealthy gentlemen.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-41, Air Date: 10/13/03
A recent recording from the Schola Cantorum in Basel takes us to a great neglected repertoire: In the 15th century, the most popular lute music was for duos—Crawford Young and Karl-Ernst Schroeder recorded an entire disc of this forgotten music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-04, Air Date: 01/16/06
This master of the Lowlands is much-beloved among the Dutch early music fans, and the ensemble Odhecaton gives us this grand mass written on a popular tune of the day.
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