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: #21-15, Air Date: 04/05/21
In early spring of 1963, John Elliot Gardiner’s mother created an Easter play for their small church in Dorset; for the 55th anniversary, it was recreated for a special recording project we hear this week.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-01, Air Date: 12/25/20
The latest from the London Oratory School Cantorum is a sequence of Renaissance music for Christmas and Epiphany.
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