The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #12-48 , Air Date: 11/19/12
Our friends the King's Singers have two recent recordings on two different labels, one of music for the royal English court, the other of settings of the Pater Noster; this week we hear excerpts from both.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-14, Air Date: 03/26/12
We continue with three recent releases with music for the days before Easter.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-13 , Air Date: 03/19/12
For this week and next, we look at recent releases by Les Arts Florissants, L'Arpeggiata, and the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-12, Air Date: 03/12/12
Two excellent new recordings look at the late Tudor and Jacobean era with Stile Antico, and a new project of Henry Purcell scored for harp, gamba, traditional Swedish violin, and voice.
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