The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #14-42, Air Date: 10/13/14
Three new releases give us different perspectives on late 16th century music: from the motif of the earth trembling, to Freiburg Cathedral in 1594, to the always arresting Don Carlo Gesualdo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-29, Air Date: 07/14/14
The latest from Cinquecento looks at songs for the Hapsburg Court, including rarely recorded composers like Jean Guyot and Jacobus Vaet.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #04-18, Air Date: 04/26/04
All of the music on this program comes from a recording made of the concert by the Trinity Baroque conducted by Julian Podger from the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. It traces the influence of Philippe de Monte (1521-1603) on the great English composer William Byrd (1543-1623).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #04-13, Air Date: 03/22/04
All of the music on this program comes from a recording
made of the concert by the Gesualdo Consort of Amsterdam directed by Harry van der Kamp from the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht.