The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-20, Air Date: 05/08/17
The superb English label gives us the Binchois Consort with music for the 100 Years’ War, the Orlando Consort with the rise of English polyphony, and Cinquecento rediscovering Jean Guyot.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-46, Air Date: 11/03/08
The new recording by the Cinquecento ensemble of the Missa Ultimi miei sospiri and motets of Mechelen-born Philippe de Monte.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-08, Air Date: 02/18/13
The ensemble Cinquecento has a wonderful recent release looking at Josquin and the generation he taught and influenced.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #11-23, Air Date: 05/30/11
The ensemble Cinquecento, which specializes in music of the renaissance Hapsburg Court, looks at the time of the "melancholy Rudolph."
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