The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-02, Air Date: 01/10/22
In late 2020 for Sacred Music, Jerome F Weber of Fanfare compiled a lifetime’s scholarship on the field to create a Top 10 list of Gregorian Chants. This week, we hear the last four, including a huge setting of the Popule meus.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-01, Air Date: 01/03/22
In late 2020 for Sacred Music, Jerome F Weber of Fanfare compiled a lifetime’s scholarship on the field to create a Top 10 list of Gregorian Chants. This week, we hear the first six.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-16, Air Date: 04/16/01
Rare sacred motets from two masters: Jean-Phillippe Rameau and the huge setting of the "Miserere" by Andre Campra.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-05, Air Date: 01/29/01
Each year, the Centre de Musique Baroque a Versailles continues its mission of preserving, publishing, and promoting the music heard in that glorious court with a festival devoted to a composer who worked there. This week, some sacred motets of Henry DuMont (1610-1684).
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