The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-44, Air Date: 11/03/03
In the early summer of 1502, Duke Philip the Fair of Burgundy was escorted into Toledo by his father-in-law King Ferdinand, where they were greeted by Queen Isabella. The greatest lowland of composers of the day traveled along and composed for the occasion, and the latest recording by the Orlando Consort celebrates this meeting.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-04, Air Date: 01/17/05
We continue or celebration of the wealth of music from the Lowlands with a new recording from the masterful Orlando Consort. This recording is on the Harmonia Mundi label, and is CD HMU 90733.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-05, Air Date: 01/28/13
Donald Grieg of the Orlando Consort (and many other groups) has penned a witty take on modern early music scholarship, performance, and the time we all so earnestly try to recreate--we'll hear the author and the music from the book.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-18, Air Date: 04/25/11
Our friends at the Orlando Consort have a remarkable new project: When the Portuguese Jesuits first came to Goa in India, what was the musical merging of East and West?
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