The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #26-14, Air Date: 03/30/26
Somehow we missed the brilliant Brigitte Lesne and her Discantus ensemble with sacred chant in Prague from the 12th through the 14th centuries (including hymns to Good King Wenceslaus).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-40, Air Date: 10/02/23
This time Brigitte Lesne is back with her Alla francesca ensemble in a program of songs from a manuscript saved in 1821 before it was to have been torn apart “as a worthless bundle of parchment.”
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-37, Air Date: 09/11/23
The always-brilliant Brigitte Lesne is back with her Alla francesca ensemble in a program of French love songs from the 13th century.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-07, Air Date: 02/14/94
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