The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-30, Air Date: 07/15/19
This time the remarkable German label gives us madrigals of Giovanni de Macque, sacred works of Johann Krieger, and works by an Italian compatriot of Heinichen and Zelenka in Dresden who brought the first Italian operas to Russia.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-45, Air Date: 10/31/16
Keyboard artistry from the court of Gesualdo, recorder music from Golden Age Spain, and sacred motets of a composer other side famous for his keyboard publications, Claudio Merulo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-42, Air Date: 10/13/14
Three new releases give us different perspectives on late 16th century music: from the motif of the earth trembling, to Freiburg Cathedral in 1594, to the always arresting Don Carlo Gesualdo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-05, Air Date: 01/22/06
Who isn't fascinated by the murderer prince? The fine Italian ensemble La Venexiana gives us highlights of the madrigal Books Four and Five.
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