The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-17, Air Date: 04/15/19
Three views on the early Baroque, with music of Barbara Strozzi, a world-premiere recordings of counter-tenor arias, and the Grammy-award-winning Apollo’s Fire recording, “Songs of Orpheus."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-28, Air Date: 07/03/17
The lovely Marian Vespers of Cavalli; an examination of the feminine sacred and divine in the early 17th century; and Frescobaldi on accordion!.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-40, Air Date: 09/26/16
The great English ensemble begins a new series of recordings of music of Monteverdi, and also looks at Italians who came to the royal court of Poland.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-14, Air Date: 03/28/16
Francesco Cavalli, Gregorio Allegri, and a new collection of 17th century motets with trombone accompaniment.
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