The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-51, Air Date: 12/18/23
This group has specialized in some wonderful reissues, and for the season are giving us two gifts: the Alfred Deller “A Minstrel’s Christmas” and Ex Cathedra’s “Baroque Christmas: Sanctus.”
Read more and hear this show…Program: #97-04, Air Date: 01/27/97
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-43, Air Date: 10/16/17
October 31st makes the actual date of the Reformation, and we conclude our year-long series with recordings that take us from Schutz to Bach.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-28, Air Date: 07/08/13
In 1947, German musicologist Fred Hamel made the first recording on the Deutsche Grammophon imprint newly dedicated to the idea of early music. For the next three weeks, we will celebrate the new 55-CD boxed set including many indispensable recording issued on CD for the first time. This week, Bach, chant, and Safford Cape.
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