Program: #18-49, Air Date: 11/26/18
Three recordings looking at the crossroads of music and trade between Europe and Islamic countries.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #18-49, Air Date: 11/26/18
Three recordings looking at the crossroads of music and trade between Europe and Islamic countries.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-25, Air Date: 06/15/15
We continue with Jordi Savall’s latest project, this week from the Treaty of Turin to the War of the Spanish Succession.
NOTE: all of the music on these programs is from the new release/book by Jordi Savall.It is on the Alia Vox label and is CD ASVA 9908.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-08, Air Date: 02/15/10
Mark Vitale conducts Contrasto Armonico and soprano Stefanie True in two of Handel's passionate cantatas.
Spotlight on the Netherlands: Italian Cantatas
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-07, Air Date: 02/08/10
The Holland Baroque Society looks at the evolution of the sonata and concerto form c.1730-1750.
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2009 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. The RNW web site provides more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival (www.rnmusic.nl). The primary theme for 2009 was the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel and the 350th of the birth of Purcell.
RNW has also prepared a short YouTube video introduction to the festival for this year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8gw2qGUaBw
Read more and hear this show…