The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-38, Air Date: 09/18/23
After the excellent revelation of this mostly-forgotten composer’s music we heard a few weeks ago with the Huelgas Ensemble, this week, Cinquecento has a new release with a set of motets and the Missa Pater noster.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-06, Air Date: 02/07/22
The ensemble Cinquecento was formed with a speciality: composers working in the Hapsburg courts of the sixteenth century. Their latest gives us another of the fine northern French composer who worked in Prague, Vienna, and Innsbruck.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-21, Air Date: 05/17/21
A rare Mass by Heinrich Isaac, Sacred Treasures of Spain, and music for the King of Scots: Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-28, Air Date: 06/29/20
A rarely-recorded mass by Josquin, music for St. Catherine from St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and the almost unknown work of Johannes de Cleve.
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