The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-20, Air Date: 05/08/17
The superb English label gives us the Binchois Consort with music for the 100 Years’ War, the Orlando Consort with the rise of English polyphony, and Cinquecento rediscovering Jean Guyot.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #02-08, Air Date: 02/25/02
Our series celebrating this fine ensemble continues with their latest release from the projected complete William Byrd edition.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-40, Air Date: 10/06/03
The latest recording by the Binchois Consort takes us to a time when the great Duchy of Burgundy met the Royal French Court at Dufay's home cathedral at Cambrai, as Henry Tudor was preparing to cross the Channel to retake England from Richard III.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-06, Air Date: 02/10/03
A new recording by the Binchois Consort highlights music from the 15th century lowlands--the great Antoine Busnois (who died in Bruges), and two rarely-heard composers associated with the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp, Petrus de Domarto and Jean Pullois.
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