The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #00-24, Air Date: 06/03/00
NOTE: The music on this program is from the 1999 Flanders International Music Festival, from the Early Music Series in Bruges. The program, "A Mass in Venice c. 1620," features the chorus and orchestra of the Capella Ducale, Venice, directed by Livio Picotti.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-43, Air Date: 10/22/01
Monteverdi's Mass of Thanksgiving recreated by Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-38, Air Date: 09/14/15
This 1592 Venetian publication gave us 29 madrigals by 29 different composers; it is reconstructed for us by the King’s Singers.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-12, Air Date: 03/12/12
Two excellent new recordings look at the late Tudor and Jacobean era with Stile Antico, and a new project of Henry Purcell scored for harp, gamba, traditional Swedish violin, and voice.
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