The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-14, Air Date: 03/25/19
The great German label gives us a mass by Hieronymus Praetorius, oratorios by Carissimi, and sacred concertos on Psalm 31 by Johann Rosenmuller.
NOTE: All of the releases on this program  are on the German label CPO.Â
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-40, Air Date: 09/25/17
The musical life of post-Reformation Basel; Tobias Michael; and more from the Vox Luminous boxed set.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-36, Air Date: 08/28/17
The celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Lutheranism continue, including music from his own day, the Praetorius chorales, and a collection of early chorales in a world-premiere performance!
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-29, Air Date: 07/10/17
Three new releases: a boxed set of early Lutheran settings set by the liturgical year, an evocation of the crucial year of 1517, and an early Baroque master in Leipzig.
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