The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-17, Air Date: 04/15/19
Three views on the early Baroque, with music of Barbara Strozzi, a world-premiere recordings of counter-tenor arias, and the Grammy-award-winning Apollo’s Fire recording, “Songs of Orpheus."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-12, Air Date: 03/13/17
A re-release for the Monteverdi 450th, plus Cavalli’s ravishing Requiem and the work long thought to be the ”first” opera, Peri’s Euridice.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-49, Air Date: 11/28/16
The secular side of the early Baroque with music from Cremona, consort works by Carlo Farina, and the early songs about Orpheus that were so inspirational in the creation of the art form of the opera.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-28, Air Date: 07/04/16
Arias by two early opera masters (Caccini and Peri), and world premiere proceedings of sacred works of Graziani and Antonio Lotti.
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