The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-40, Air Date: 10/02/23
This time Brigitte Lesne is back with her Alla francesca ensemble in a program of songs from a manuscript saved in 1821 before it was to have been torn apart “as a worthless bundle of parchment.”
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-37, Air Date: 09/11/23
The always-brilliant Brigitte Lesne is back with her Alla francesca ensemble in a program of French love songs from the 13th century.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-03, Air Date: 01/07/19
The great French medieval ensemble (affiliated with the center for Medieval Music inParis) celibrates the relationship of Jews and the trouvères culture.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-22, Air Date: 05/23/16
Two of the finest ensembles in early music, Discantus and Alla Francesca share their latest; plus a program recorded live at PĂ©riogord.
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