The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-50, Air Date: 12/12/22
Our special Christmas centerpiece is the new reconstruction of what Monteverdi wrote in a 1616 letter was the “hard work on a Mass for Christmas Eve” with the brilliant reconstruction by conductor Andrea Marcon.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-34, Air Date: 08/16/21
Considered perhaps the finest Monteverdi interpreter of our time, the Italian director of the Concerto Italiano guides us through the vast 1610 Marian Vespers.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-22, Air Date: 05/30/94
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-38, Air Date: 09/12/16
The founder of Hesperion XX and XXI is celebrated with his latest (“Granada 1013-1502") and his first: the newly-reissued 1981 “Battles and Laments” featuring the young Montserrat Figueras.
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