September 2004

Chapelle du Roi: Music for Charles V

Note: All of the music on this program is from a recording that expands a concert we featured from the Holland Festival of Early Music.

Composer: ORLANDUS LASSUS, Don FERNANDO de las INFANTAS, CRISTOBAL MORALES (1500-1553), THOMAS CREQUILLON, NICHOLAS GOMBERT, JOSQUIN DESPREZ (c. 1450-1521),

CD Info: CD SIGCD019

Philippe de Monte at Utrecht, Part 3

Continuing the theme of the influence of this great Franco-Flemish composer from the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht, this week we hear the Gesualdo Consort contrast de Monte's madrigals with those of Johannes Tollius (born in Amersfoort, travelled through Europe, wound up in Denmark).

Composer: Philippe de Monte (1521-1603), Johannes Tollius (c.1550-c.1603)

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A Byzantine Requiem

NOTE: All of the music on this program is from one of the recordings made by the Choir of the Monks of Chevetogne directed by Fr. Thomas Pott.

Composer:

CD Info: CH/CD 110/503

Hildegard von Bingen: The Origin of Fire

NOTE: We return with our new season to present a mixed blessing—the new recording by the ensemble Anonymous 4 is dedicated to Hildegard von Bingen—but time with the ladies talking about why, after 18 glorious years, they have decided to disband as an ensemble.

Composer: HILDEGARD von BINGEN (1098-1179), HRABANUS MAURUS (d.856),

CD Info: CD HMU 907327