Program: #02-21, Air Date: 05/27/02
This week, the great French medieval ensemble Alla Francesca takes us on a musical journey through the epic Roman de la Rose.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #02-21, Air Date: 05/27/02
This week, the great French medieval ensemble Alla Francesca takes us on a musical journey through the epic Roman de la Rose.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #02-10, Air Date: 03/11/02
From the multi-disc set "The Golden Age of European Polyphony" from the Belgian label Cypres, we celebrate Machaut, Dunstable & Dufay.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-41, Air Date: 10/13/03
A recent recording from the Schola Cantorum in Basel takes us to a great neglected repertoire: In the 15th century, the most popular lute music was for duos—Crawford Young and Karl-Ernst Schroeder recorded an entire disc of this forgotten music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-40, Air Date: 10/06/03
The latest recording by the Binchois Consort takes us to a time when the great Duchy of Burgundy met the Royal French Court at Dufay's home cathedral at Cambrai, as Henry Tudor was preparing to cross the Channel to retake England from Richard III.
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