The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
The Swiss Lute School, continuedProgram: #03-41, Air Date: 10/13/03
A recent recording from the Schola Cantorum in Basel takes us to a great neglected repertoire: In the 15th century, the most popular lute music was for duos—Crawford Young and Karl-Ernst Schroeder recorded an entire disc of this forgotten music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-07, Air Date: 02/09/15
NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family.
A rarely-heard Swiss composer, the great Englishman Thomas Tomkins, and madrigals of madness at the turn of the 17th century.
Read more and hear this show… All The Five Salutations: More Music of Ludwig SenflProgram: #05-41, Air Date: 10/03/05
NOTE: This greatest of Swiss composers has been an ongoing area of rediscovery in the last decades; this week, the Swiss Radio Choir gives us more sacred gems, including the grand motets and the para-liturgical "Five Salutations of Christ" commissioned by Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria. The Coro della Radio Svizzera is directed by Diego Fasolis in this recording, which is titled Ludwig Senfl: Missa Paschalis und Motteten. It is on the Musikszene Schweiz label, and is CD # MGB 6165.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-49, Air Date: 11/28/05
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the recording Sacred Music at the Vienna Court Chapel of Maximilian I featuring the Clemencic Consort and the boys Choralschola of the Vienna Court Chapel directed by Dr. Rene Clemencic.
Read more and hear this show…