The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-42, Air Date: 10/16/23
Another of the great pupils of Gabrieli (and indeed may have spent time with Heinrich Schutz when they were in Venice), Pederson gets a new airing of his rarely-recorded sacred works by the ensemble Weser-Renaissance.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-52, Air Date: 12/20/21
Some Hieronymus Praetorius, a little Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, and one more seasonal peek from the great boxed set of Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-47, Air Date: 11/11/19
Lenten music of Cristobal de Morales, a grand mass by Cipriano de Rore, and the second CD in Cinquecento’s series on Palestrina.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-30, Air Date: 07/15/19
This time the remarkable German label gives us madrigals of Giovanni de Macque, sacred works of Johann Krieger, and works by an Italian compatriot of Heinichen and Zelenka in Dresden who brought the first Italian operas to Russia.
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