The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-34, Air Date: 08/21/23
There are few major figures in the field we have not had as a guest in our program’s history; one of these is the great Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort. This week, music of Taverner, Josquin, and Palestrina.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-09, Air Date: 02/27/23
The Cambridge-based ensemble De Profundis begins a set of recordings of all the masses and Magnificat settings by the famous 16th century Spanish composer; this first disc gives us the famous Missa Mille regretz, and the very obscure mass on the tune “Tell the gentleman not to complain."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-51, Air Date: 12/19/22
The Miracles of St. Nicholas with the superb Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Palestrina with the Vienna Vocal Consort, and a Spanish Christmas with the Ensemble Corund.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-36, Air Date: 09/05/22
Recordings from the Choir of New College, Oxford, a two-CD set by Alamire, and the latest from The Gesualdo Six.
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