The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-50, Air Date: 12/12/22
Our special Christmas centerpiece is the new reconstruction of what Monteverdi wrote in a 1616 letter was the “hard work on a Mass for Christmas Eve” with the brilliant reconstruction by conductor Andrea Marcon.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-05, Air Date: 01/25/21
Dances from France, Italian double harp music, and “bizzarie” from 17th century England.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-07, Air Date: 02/06/17
In time for Valentine’s Day, some madrigals of love from around 1600
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-04, Air Date: 01/15/06
Frequent Festival favorites Concerto Palatino give us two composers influenced by Gabrieli--Johann Stadlmayr (c. 1580-1648) and Giovanni Valentini (1582/3-1649).
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