The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #07-23, Air Date: 05/28/07
This great Swiss ensemble will be performing at the Lincoln Center in New York on August 20, 2007, presenting Monteverdi's "Vespro della Beata Vergine" (1610 Marian Vespers). This week we begin a four-part look at their work in early music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-24, Air Date: 06/04/07
While we more often hear works by nephew Giovanni, one of the Coro's recordings is of the rarer choral artistry of Andrea Gabrieli.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-25, Air Date: 06/11/07
We have heard the chorus in the past in works by Senfl and Carissimi--this week, far more obscure seicento composers.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-26, Air Date: 06/18/07
Two more Italian composers, one early and one in the middle of the early evolution of opera.
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