The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #95-15, Air Date: 04/10/95
Program: #93-14, Air Date: 04/05/93
From the Reformation and the counter-Reformation into the early Baroque era, the music that celebrated Easter became larger and grander. This week we sample the antiphonal glory of Venice, as well as the simpler vernacular Lutheran chorales that marked the Easter feast from the end of the 16th into the beginning of the 17th centuries.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #92-02, Air Date: 01/13/92
Program: #91-33, Air Date: 08/19/91
Responsories represent some of the most moving material in the Mass. Fr. Jerome Weber, Early Music critic for Fanfare Magazine, guides us through some familiar and obscure examples from Easter to Christmas.
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