The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-09, Air Date: 02/28/22
We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, to early 17th century Italian cantatas, and then to some lesser-recorded Bach keyboard works.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-34, Air Date: 08/16/21
Considered perhaps the finest Monteverdi interpreter of our time, the Italian director of the Concerto Italiano guides us through the vast 1610 Marian Vespers.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-31, Air Date: 07/26/21
Considered perhaps the finest Monteverdi interpreter of our time, the Italian director of the Concerto Italiano guides us through madrigal books 3, 5 & 6.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-49, Air Date: 11/23/20
Sacred works by Frescobaldi, Marian hymns by Caccini and others, and Jewish-Italian spiritual music.
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