New Life for Old Work

Program: #93-13🎁 Air Date: Mar 29, 1993

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Celebrating the rebirth on compact disc of one of the great Early Music labels, we'll hear some examples of the recordings from Das Alte Werk. Begun in the late 1950's with Bach Cantatas, this label provided some of the earliest recordings of the operas of Monteverdi.

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