The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #17-06, Air Date: 01/29/17
The Italian label will take us from music used for both sacred and secular pieces (with just a change of text), to the cusp of the Baroque, to a world premier look at an Italian Baroque master.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-11, Air Date: 03/12/00
Music in the Library: Looking forward to Bach's birthday, a concert from Utrecht by the ensemble La Fenice of music from the master's personal library.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-20, Air Date: 05/19/03
Music in Rome at the end of the 16th century performed by the Orchestra of the Renaissance at the 2002 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-48, Air Date: 11/23/15
Three recent releases highlight the musical ferment of the first decades of the 1600s: the brothers Praetorius, the roots of opera, and the remarkable Berlin Gamba Book.
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