Program: #14-05, Air Date: 01/27/14
Renaissance Italy and Petrarch settings; a remarkable Armenian troubadour; and Renaissance Nuremberg from royal court to the rise of humanism.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #14-05, Air Date: 01/27/14
Renaissance Italy and Petrarch settings; a remarkable Armenian troubadour; and Renaissance Nuremberg from royal court to the rise of humanism.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-02, Air Date: 01/01/06
Women composers achieved more fame as composers at this time than any since the Troubadour era. The Concert Soave featuring the brilliant Maria Cristina Kiehr treat us to music by Barbara Strozzi, Caterina Assandra, Isabella Leonarda, Francesca Caccini, and other remarkable women in this concert.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-18, Air Date: 04/21/08
The Basel-based ensemble La Villanella shares vocal works by great women composers of the early Italian Baroque--some familiar, like Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, and some less-frequently heard, like Caterina Assandra and Vittoria Aleotti.
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