The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #02-38, Air Date: 09/23/02
Once again, the Alamire foundation weighs in with a superb recording (and story book!) of the works of an imaginary Flemish composer as he journeyed to Italy from Bruges, bringing the Northern style as he went.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #02-11, Air Date: 03/18/02
From the multi-disc set "The Golden Age of European Polyphony" from the Belgian label Cypres, we continue our recognition of Bruges as the European Cultural Capital 2002 with music of Ockeghem.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-41, Air Date: 10/05/15
The latest in the Palestrina edition with The Sixteen, Lassus from the Cinquecento Ensemble, and a new recording of Ockeghem’s Missa L’homme armé.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-41, Air Date: 10/02/06
Two great Franco-Flemish composers, Dendermonde's Johannes Ockeghem and the influential Jacob Obrecht (born in Bergen op Zoom, and working in the great city of Bruges), are among the 30-odd who set masses on this famous tune—we'll hear an import disc with the Capella Fidicina.
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