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: #11-02, Air Date: 01/03/11
Skip Sempé conducts his Capriccio Stravagante in instrumental music from Louis' court.
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2010 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. We direct listeners to their web site, which will provide more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival:
www.rnwclassical.com
The primary theme for 2010 was a celebration of the French Baroque in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-01, Air Date: 12/27/10
Motets from the court of Louis XIV by Lully, Campra, Delalande and Desmarest.
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2010 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. We direct listeners to their web site, which will provide more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival:
www.rnwclassical.com
The primary theme for 2010 was a celebration of the French Baroque in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Read more and hear this show…