The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #13-42, Air Date: 10/14/13
Music from recent releases celebrating the English high Renaissance and the composers from John Taverner (c.1490-1545) to Martin Peerson (c.1571-1651), centering on Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-21, Air Date: 05/20/13
This fine young English ensemble was new to us last month, and we promised more from if they were warmly received (which they were!).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-44, Air Date: 10/24/11
The Gallicantus Ensemble with music by Robert White and a disc of laments for the death of Prince Henry; and the Tenebrae ensemble with music of Alonso Lobo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #10-48, Air Date: 11/22/10
The brilliant young English ensemble is out with a Christmas disc, including the Tallis Missa "Puer natus est" and works by Byrd, Taverner, Sheppard, and Robert White.
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