The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #21-38, Air Date: 09/13/21
Before we leave the Josquin 500th services, we hear three recent takes on his work, including a radical reassessment of the composer as a pop icon updating the musical accompaniment to his music (Ondes Martinot!).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-05, Air Date: 01/20/20
The History of St. Martin, 1558; Marian music of the early Italian Baroque; and mandolin compositions by Filippo Sauli.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-06, Air Date: 02/02/15
NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family.
The superb Italian label gives us three 16th century Italian composers (and two different world premiers!)
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-44, Air Date: 10/26/09
The national broadcast premiere of the new release by lutenist Rolf Lislevand and his ensemble looking at the inventive Italian, Spanish and English 16th century. NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the recording Diminuito on the ECM label, and is ECM CD #2088 (B0013355-02).
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