The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-01, Air Date: 01/02/23
The ensemble Cappella Romana takes us to 1400, when Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, who sought foreign aid for besieged Constantinople, spent Christmas at the court of King Henry IV.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-25, Air Date: 06/08/20
The superb West Coast ensemble gives us music of Renaissance Crete and Cyprus, plus music as it would have been heard in the Hagia Sophia.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-17, Air Date: 04/17/17
Cyprus, late medieval Poland, and 17th century Scotland.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-14, Air Date: 03/30/15
Holy Week chant from both the Eastern and Western traditions, and a rare Passion from late 16th century Germany.
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