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: #16-40, Air Date: 09/26/16
The great English ensemble begins a new series of recordings of music of Monteverdi, and also looks at Italians who came to the royal court of Poland.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-21, Air Date: 05/16/16
Italy from 1580 to 1620 was the birthing ground of the Baroque; this week, the ensemble Constantinople, opera superstar Magdalena Kožená, and the father of Galileo.
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