The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #08-07, Air Date: 02/04/08
Lully was a contemporary of Buxtehude; Muffat and Corelli born a generation later--the Holland Baroque Society gives us the German, Italian and French Baroque sound in the time of the birth of Bach and Handel.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-11, Air Date: 03/08/10
A cantata, some sonatas, and whatever else we missed on our musical celebration of Handel and his time.
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…Program: #10-07, Air Date: 02/08/10
The Holland Baroque Society looks at the evolution of the sonata and concerto form c.1730-1750.
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…