The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-06, Air Date: 01/29/17
The Italian label will take us from music used for both sacred and secular pieces (with just a change of text), to the cusp of the Baroque, to a world premier look at an Italian Baroque master.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-49, Air Date: 11/28/16
The secular side of the early Baroque with music from Cremona, consort works by Carlo Farina, and the early songs about Orpheus that were so inspirational in the creation of the art form of the opera.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-49, Air Date: 12/03/01
More from the concert featuring the Schola Cantorum of Basel celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first printed music by Ottaviano Petrucci--including some sacred settings.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-47, Air Date: 11/19/01
More music celebrating the 500th anniversary of Petrucci's first printed music books.
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