The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #93-13, Air Date: 03/29/93
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.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-09, Air Date: 02/28/22
We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, to early 17th century Italian cantatas, and then to some lesser-recorded Bach keyboard works.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-14, Air Date: 03/29/21
The director of the Ora Singers returns to share music from the Passion and into Easter; part 2 takes us from Good Friday to Easter day itself.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-13, Air Date: 03/22/21
The director of the Ora Singers returns to share music from the Passion and into Easter; part 1 takes us into Good Friday .
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