The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #00-23, Air Date: 05/31/00
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from a live performance from the 1999 Flanders International Music Festival. This program is from the "Laus Polyphoniae" series in Antwerp, and features the Concordia Ensemble with I Fagiolini. For more information on travel to Flanders, or about the Festival, you may contact the Belgian Tourist Office at www.visitbelgium.com.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-15, Air Date: 04/04/16
Music from Shakespeare’s time featuring the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, the ensemble Ora, and The Sixteen.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-18, Air Date: 05/05/03
One of the earliest fans of the program was the direct descendent of the composer who lived from the time of Elizabeth, through the Jacobean Era, and into the Interregnum. We dedicate this new first-time-ever recording of the much admired 1622 songbook of Tomkins to his memory.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-07, Air Date: 02/09/15
NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family.
A rarely-heard Swiss composer, the great Englishman Thomas Tomkins, and madrigals of madness at the turn of the 17th century.
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