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: #02-36, Air Date: 09/09/02
The national broadcast premier of this rare work by the greatest Renaissance composer; the edition exists in a Flemish copy from 1508, and our program is sponsored in part by the Belgian Tourist Office.
Read more and hear this show…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: #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.
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