The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-20, Air Date: 05/08/17
The superb English label gives us the Binchois Consort with music for the 100 Years’ War, the Orlando Consort with the rise of English polyphony, and Cinquecento rediscovering Jean Guyot.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-42, Air Date: 10/15/01
Sacred music from the 2001 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-52, Air Date: 12/18/06
Our friends The Orlando Consort have a beautiful project for Christmas 2006—we'll talk with founding member Donald Greig about the evolution of this repertoire from the earliest multi-voice writing, through the medieval carol, and into the great era of Franco-Flemish polyphony.
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