The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #21-45, Air Date: 11/01/21
The ear of Flemish artist Theodor van Loon, who studied in Rome; sacred music of Alessandro Grandi; and the Requiem of Francesco Cavalli.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-19, Air Date: 04/29/19
Musical illustrations for a 16th century treatise on ornamentation, harpsichord works of Scheidt and Scheidemann, and wind and hunting horn music by Telemann.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-23, Air Date: 05/30/16
The amazing (and profuse) German label takes us to Italy and the great early Baroque master who brought the Italian style back to Germany.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-35, Air Date: 08/24/15
This time the excellent Dutch label gives us lute music of Piccinini, Buxtehude cornett sonatas, and coronation music for Charles II.
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