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Millennium of Music
February and March 2006 Schedule
Music from the Lowlands
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#06-09: 02/20/06 -- The Hilliard Ensemble: Nicholas Gombert--The favorite composer of Charles V is given masterful treatment in this premiere national broadcast of the Hilliard Ensembles' latest recording.
#06-10: 02/27/06-- Forlana Consort at the Corcoran Gallery--A live recording of one of Flanders' premier vocal ensembles exhibiting a wide range of technique in three centuries of music.
#06-11: 03/06 -- The Antwerp Songbook, 1544--One of the defining musical publications of the high Renaissance, Jan Rollins amazing publication gave us the first printed version of 221 secular songs, a kind of folk song-cum-"fake book" that is an amazing window into late medieval music.
#06-12: 03/13/06 -- Paradiso Armonico--From the world-famous Flanders Festival, we go to Bruges as the ensemble More Maiorum directed by Peter Van Heyghen recreates the influence on the new Italian sound on the Lowlands in the first decades of the 17th century.
#06-13: 03/20/06-- Phillippe de Monte--Another great Flemish composer and contemporary of Gombert, the Mechelen-born De Monte wound up bringing the Lowlands sound to Naples, Rome, Spain, Vienna and Prague--the Choir of New College, Oxford, convincingly performs his work.
#06-14: 03/27/06 -- Music for Sir Anthony--Finally released on CD, the concerts by the Currende Ensemble directed by Erik van Nevel tracing the great artist's journeys from Antwerp to London to Italy to his return home again.
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