The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #24-35, Air Date: 08/26/24
The Stylus Phantasticus, Francesco Cavalli’s Grand Venetian Mass for the Treaty of Paris, and music for Lady Louise.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-43, Air Date: 10/24/22
We discover yet another early Baroque woman of the arts with this Roman performer and composer's collection of arias, which was published in 1629, when she was barely 20.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-10, Air Date: 03/01/21
Three recent releases trace Gesualdo’s madrigal writing from Book 2 (1594) to Book 6 (1611).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-05, Air Date: 01/25/21
Dances from France, Italian double harp music, and “bizzarie” from 17th century England.
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