The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-40, Air Date: 10/06/03
The latest recording by the Binchois Consort takes us to a time when the great Duchy of Burgundy met the Royal French Court at Dufay's home cathedral at Cambrai, as Henry Tudor was preparing to cross the Channel to retake England from Richard III.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-45, Air Date: 11/02/15
Don Greig of the Orlando Consort guides us through the group’s latest, dedicated to the sadly-neglected contemporary of Josquin, Loyset Compère.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #04-08, Air Date: 02/16/04
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from a recording made of the concert by the Egidius Kwartet from the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-52, Air Date: 12/18/06
Our friends The Orlando Consort have a beautiful project for Christmas 2006—we'll talk with founding member Donald Greig about the evolution of this repertoire from the earliest multi-voice writing, through the medieval carol, and into the great era of Franco-Flemish polyphony.
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