The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #13-10, Air Date: 03/04/13
The fabulous young lutenist has already performed with a score of great early music ensembles; this week, live from the Maison Française at the French Embassy, a program of Dowland and Kapsberger.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-48 , Air Date: 11/19/12
Our friends the King's Singers have two recent recordings on two different labels, one of music for the royal English court, the other of settings of the Pater Noster; this week we hear excerpts from both.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-19, Air Date: 04/30/12
From the incomparable Hilliard Ensemble performing Gesualdo to the evolution of the saltarello to John Holloway's look at the evolution of the early Italian baroque.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-12, Air Date: 03/12/12
Two excellent new recordings look at the late Tudor and Jacobean era with Stile Antico, and a new project of Henry Purcell scored for harp, gamba, traditional Swedish violin, and voice.
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