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Millennium of Music
May through September 2006 Schedule
#06-19: 05/01/06: Istanbul International Music Festival--Part 3: Continuing our review of the 2005 Istanbul Festival, we'll hear some of the arias and solo songs of Handel featuring the ensemble Il Complesso Barocco directed by Alan Curtis.
#06-20: 05/08/06: Three from Venance Fortunat: The great French Medieval ensemble has five recent discs: "Water & Baptism;" "Cluny: The Virgin;" "Altera Roma; "Daniel;" and "Alleluia"--we'll sample each of them
#06-21: 05/15/06: Peter Philips and Francisco Guerrero: You may know about the Tallis Scholars' latest disc, dedicated to Guerrero's Missa Surge Propera; we'll hear some of that disc, and a rare import of Phillip's work with the Musica Reservata of Barcelona in Guerrero's Missa Dormendo un giorno and rarely-heard motets.
#06:22: 05/22/06: Eduardo Paniagua and Musica Antiqua: The famous Spanish early music proponent has his own label now (Pneuma) and many new releases; we'll sample some of them.
#06-23: 05/29/06: Lislevand and Lirico—Two recent ECM discs with Stephen Stubbs’ new ensemble Teatro Lirico and Rolf Lislevand with vocals by Arianna Savall.
#06-24: (repeat of #05-42) 06/05/06: Le Champion des Dames--Once again Guillaume Dufay and his compatriot, Gilles Binchois, are linked in another of the superb "I Fiamminghi" series co-sponsored by the Flemish Cultural Ministry. Martin le Franc's poem on the nature of Woman was only one many poetic meditations that characterize one of the "Cause des femmes," the debate that "enthralled the entire Middle Ages."
#06-25: (repeat of #05-47) 06/12/06: A Rediscovered Polish Master: Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz--Only in the 1970s (thanks to Jaromir Cerny's researches) could we identify the legendary "Petrus" as associated with some of the great compositions from late medieval Europe; this week, with David Eben and his Schola Gregoriana of Prague, we hear this lost master.
#06-26: (repeat of #05-48) 06/19/06: Liturgy from Armenia--One of the earliest series we did on Millennium was dedicated to the sacred music of the first Christian nation; this week, we'll sample performances from Armenian communities in France, Washington, D.C. and Providence, RI as this exquisite liturgy is recreated.
#06-27: (repeat of #05-43) 06/26/06: Croatia's Mystic Sounds--One of our most popular series ever is when we featured Croatian music from the Holland Early Music festival in Utrecht. Producer Nenad Bach has recorded two programs of folk and other haunting music from the tradition called "klapa" which are now generally available on disc, and we'll sample them this week.
#06-28: (repeat of #05-46) 07/03/06: Lassus: The Song of Songs--This greatest of the last generation of composers from the Lowlands made many settings from the Song of Solomon, but unlike his contemporary Palestrina never published them in one volume. The latest effort by The Cardinall's Musick collects these and a mass inspired by one of them.
#06-29: (repeat of #06-09) 07/10/06 -- 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.
#06-30: (repeat of #06-13) 07/17/06-- 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.
#06-31: (repeat of #06-11) 07/24/06 -- 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.
#06-32: (repeat of #06-02) 07/31/06 -- Christmas in the Tudor Court--The Trinity Baroque directed by Julian Podger give us Thomas Tallis' Missa Puer natus est with other 16th century English music for the season.
#06-33: (repeat of #06-03) 08/07/06 -- Masters of Contrapuntal Music--The evolution of counterpoint was one of the themes of the 2005 Festival, and Paul van Nevel with his Huelgas Ensemble take us on a tour of the 15th century with the famous (Dufay, Josquin) and the rare (Forestier, Kerle).
#06-34: (repeat of #06-04) 08/14/06 -- Obrecht's Missa Fortuna desperata--This master of the Lowlands is much-beloved among the Dutch early music fans, and the ensemble Odhecaton gives us this grand mass written on a popular tune of the day.
#06-35: (repeat of #06-05) 08/21/06 -- Charpentier's Mass a 8--The superb French ensemble Le Concert spirituel conducted by Herve Niquet gives us this breathtaking masterpiece for voices, violins, flutes and organ written after Charpentier's visit to Rome.
#06-36: (repeat of #06-06) 08/28/06 -- The Fountains of Israel--One of those composers who brought the Italianate style of music back to Germany, Johann Hermann Schein, set a series of Biblical texts in a madrigal-like manner for this charming 1623 publication--we'll hear Sette Voci perform.
#06-37: (repeat of #06-07) 09/04/06 -- The Spanish Cathedral in the 17th century--The ensemble Al Ayre Espagnol conducted by Eduardo Lopez Banzo recreates the late 17th century in Spain, when the forces of the Counter-Reformation were resisted in music by the popular and uniquely Iberian popular folk-inspired villancico.
#06-38: (repeat of #06-08) 09/11/06 -- A Venetian Coronation 1595--And finally, the "greatest hit" in the world of liturgical recreations, as Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort recreate his best-selling recording in a vast program that closed out the 2005 Utrecht Festival.
#06-39: 9/18/06 – Gloryland—In a follow-up to the best-selling program of Americana called American Angels, the ladies of Anonymous 4 have created (as they say) a “diary of our second pilgrimage to the roots of Anglo-American vocal music. The journey has led us to more of the most beautiful religious ballads, folk songs, folk hymns, and gospel songs ever to be found. Each sung poem contains a world of meaning in itself: together they tell a story of love and loss, hope and redemption.” The ladies will join us for this special program.
#06-40 (repeat of #05-41—this was originally scheduled for rebroadcast 5/29/06) 09/25/06 --The Five Salutations--More Music of Ludwig Senfl--This greatest of Swiss composers has been an ongoing area of rediscovery in the last decades; this week, the Swiss Radio Choir gives us more sacred gems, including the grand motets and the para-liturgical "Five Salutations of Christ" commissioned by Duke Wilhelm of Bavaria.
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