The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-09, Air Date: 02/28/22
We journey with the director of the Concerto Italiano from Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, to early 17th century Italian cantatas, and then to some lesser-recorded Bach keyboard works.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-45, Air Date: 11/01/21
The ear of Flemish artist Theodor van Loon, who studied in Rome; sacred music of Alessandro Grandi; and the Requiem of Francesco Cavalli.
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: #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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