The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #16-38, Air Date: 09/12/16
The founder of Hesperion XX and XXI is celebrated with his latest (“Granada 1013-1502") and his first: the newly-reissued 1981 “Battles and Laments” featuring the young Montserrat Figueras.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-21, Air Date: 05/16/16
Italy from 1580 to 1620 was the birthing ground of the Baroque; this week, the ensemble Constantinople, opera superstar Magdalena Kožená, and the father of Galileo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-06, Air Date: 02/05/00
We sample some of the new releases in the field of early music with themes of romantic love.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-46, Air Date: 11/10/14
The latest from Phantasm dedicated to John Ward; the Rose Consort of Viols takes us on a European tour, and young Thomas Dunford picks up the archlute.
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