Program: #23-36, Air Date: 09/04/23
The continuing series of the complete madrigals of Don Carlo Gesualdo, the composer’s profound Tenebrae music, and the early Italian madrigals of Heinrich Schutz.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-36, Air Date: 09/04/23
The continuing series of the complete madrigals of Don Carlo Gesualdo, the composer’s profound Tenebrae music, and the early Italian madrigals of Heinrich Schutz.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-33, Air Date: 08/09/21
Les Arts Florissants are back with Volume 3 of their “Airs sérieux et à boire” series; a remarkable tribute to the music inspired by the poetry by the Comtesse de la Suze; and a world-premiere recording of a ballet by Lully.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-10, Air Date: 03/01/21
Three recent releases trace Gesualdo’s madrigal writing from Book 2 (1594) to Book 6 (1611).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-09, Air Date: 02/22/21
Love songs up to the early years of Louis XIV, and Charpentier’s journey to Rome.
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