The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #12-12, Air Date: 03/12/12
Two excellent new recordings look at the late Tudor and Jacobean era with Stile Antico, and a new project of Henry Purcell scored for harp, gamba, traditional Swedish violin, and voice.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-48, Air Date: 11/21/11
NOTE: All of the music on this program was recorded at La Maison Française at the Embassy of France, in cooperation with the French-American Cultural Foundation. For information on the many activities and concerts at the Maison, you may explore the site:
www.houseoffrancedc.com
Paul Agnew and Music of Purcell--We hear a recent performance from Paul Agnew and members of Les Arts florissants featureing the lush and timeless vocal and instrumental works of Henry Purcell.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-09, Air Date: 02/22/10
This time, we journey from Ward and Jenkins to Purcell with the superb Phantasm ensemble.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-05, Air Date: 01/25/10
Henry Purcell's exquisite Ode for St. Cecilia's Day with the Innsbruck Festival Chorus directed by Timothy Brown.
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2009 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. The RNW web site provides more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival (www.rnmusic.nl). The primary theme for 2009 was the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel and the 350th of the birth of Purcell.
RNW has also prepared a short YouTube video introduction to the festival for this year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8gw2qGUaBw
Read more and hear this show…