The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-19, Air Date: 05/01/17
The ongoing celebrations of the 450th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian composer include a boxed set of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants and treatments of the tale of Orfeo with Philippe Jarousky.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-08, Air Date: 02/13/17
A Vespers for St. Barbara, music for organ and percussion, and the first of many new releases for the Monteverdi 450th.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-23, Air Date: 05/30/16
The amazing (and profuse) German label takes us to Italy and the great early Baroque master who brought the Italian style back to Germany.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-20, Air Date: 05/09/16
Two from the Tenet Ensemble, and a Sephardic Journey with Apollo’s Fire.
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