The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #21-33, Air Date: 08/09/21
Les Arts Florissants are back with Volume 3 of their “Airs sérieux et à boire” series; a remarkable tribute to the music inspired by the poetry by the Comtesse de la Suze; and a world-premiere recording of a ballet by Lully.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-09, Air Date: 02/22/21
Love songs up to the early years of Louis XIV, and Charpentier’s journey to Rome.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-06, Air Date: 02/01/21
Picking up where we left off last February, we continue our look at the courtly love song from the time of Louis XIII.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-06, Air Date: 01/27/20
Two recordings of Courtly Airs with the Zephyrus Flutes and Le Poème harmonique, and the Royal Ballet of the Night from 1653.
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