The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #06-21, Air Date: 05/15/06
You may know about the Tallis Scholars' latest disc, dedicated to Guerrero's Missa Surge Propera; we'll hear some of that disc, and a rare import of Phillip's work with the Musica Reservata of Barcelona in Guerrero's Missa Dormendo un giorno and rarely-heard motets.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-02, Air Date: 01/05/09
The Ensemble Doulce Memoire recreates some of the festive music Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) wrote for high feast at the cathedral of Seville.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-04, Air Date: 01/19/09
The superb English ensemble Stile Antico performs music for the Virgin Mary by Franco-Flemish composers who worked for the Spanish court (Gombert, Clemens non Papa) as well as the great Iberian creators like Victoria.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-17, Air Date: 04/22/13
Our friend Donald Grieg put us on to this fine young English ensemble--we'll hear from their premiere and sophomore recordings.
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