The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-05, Air Date: 02/03/03
Palestrina's death on Candlemas (February 2) has always made the month of February a good one to celebrate the great composer; this week, the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir takes us on a musical tour of this Renaissance titan.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-42, Air Date: 10/12/15
In honor of the Pope’s recent visit to America, we present the first studio project recorded in the Sistine Chapel itself.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-41, Air Date: 10/05/15
The latest in the Palestrina edition with The Sixteen, Lassus from the Cinquecento Ensemble, and a new recording of Ockeghem’s Missa L’homme armé.
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.
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