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Millennium of Music
September and October 2007 Schedule
#07-37: 09/03/07 (repeat of 06-50): Sting: Songs from the Labyrinth--Rapidly becoming one of the best-selling early music albums in history, Sting's new project is a four century bridge between like-minded musical minds. In a far-reaching interview, Sting describes his approach to this music and his collaboration with lute virtuoso Edin Karamazov, a student of Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum in Basel.
#07-38: 09/10/07 (repeat of 06-45): Dulcis Melancholia--Musical Biography of Margaret of Austria--Born in Brussels, her tragic life was central not only to early 16th century European politics, but from her adopted city of Mechlin was surrounded by the greatest composers of the day; on this new disc Dirk Snelling's Capilla Flamenca looks at her circle, including Josquin, Pierre de la Rue, Obrecht, and Agricola.
#07-39: 09/17/07 Musica del Delphin and Starflowers--Two new releases from ECM explore very different cultures;:Luys de Narvaez published six books of compositions in 1538 for viheula, interpreted here by Pablo Marquez; and Sinikka Langeland, born of Norwegian and Finnish heritage, uses the forest imagery of poet Hans Borli to explore music ancient and new.
#07-40: 09/24/07: William Byrd: The Second Service--Just released this month, Bill Ives directs the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford in David Skinner's reconstruction of Byrd's second Evensong service along, with verse anthems popular and rare.
#07-41: 10/01/07 (repeat of 06-42): Gheerkin de Hondt--While born in Delft, this almost-unknown composer spent his formative creative years in Bruges. Among the rarities on this disc are his setting of a mass for St. Cecelia (patron saint of music), and notably the birth date of his famous predecessor at Bruges, Jacob Obrecht.
#07-42: 10/8/07: Trio Medieval: Folk Songs--The fabulous ladies of Trio Medieval are back with a collection of haunting late medieval folk songs in their native Norwegian tradition, most passed on orally over the centuries and mostly connected both musically and emotionally to particular regions in the home country.
#07-43: 10/15/07: Cappella Romana: The Fall of Constantinople: The first of two programs from the brilliant Portland, Oregon ensemble that explores music of the ancient Orthodox church--this program gives us eastern and western laments on the fall in 1453 of the 1000-year-old empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
#07-44: 10/22/07: Capella Romana: Monastery of St. Catherine: Founded in 548, this incomparable treasure nestled on Mount Sinai has not only the greatest collection of ancient icons that survived the ravages of the iconoclasts, it has a powerful and haunting musical tradition performed by the Capella in this exclusive concert.
#07-45: 10/29/07: Three more from Venance Fortunat: The great French Medieval ensemble has three more discs we have never heard--early Capetian chant, the Transfiguration ceremony from Cluny, and the Miracles of St. Nicholas.
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