The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #02-09, Air Date: 03/04/02
The cultural capital of Europe moves to Belgium this year and we begin commemorating the occasion this week with a gorgeous CD from the ensemble Capilla Flamenca featuring music of Jacob Obrecht, Pierre de la Rue and Josquin Desprez (from the Alamire Foundation).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-25, Air Date: 06/16/14
A recent recording by the ensemble La Reverdie looks at the songs of St. Catherine of Bologna (1413-1463).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-45, Air Date: 10/30/06
Born in Brussels, the tragic life of Margaret of Austria was central not only to early 16th century European politics. Her adopted city of Mechlin was surrounded by the greatest composers of the day; on this new disc Dirk Snelling's Capilla Flamenca looks at her circle, including Josquin, Pierre de la Rue, Obrecht, and Agricola.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-44, Air Date: 10/23/06
While most of the secular works by the great Obrecht are lost or fragmentary, the Camerata Trajectina has put together a massive project to reconstruct these once immensely popular pieces.
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