The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-34, Air Date: 08/21/23
There are few major figures in the field we have not had as a guest in our program’s history; one of these is the great Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort. This week, music of Taverner, Josquin, and Palestrina.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-27, Air Date: 06/22/20
The great English ensemble continues with Volume 8 of their Palestrina cycle, music from Rome in the 16th century, and the latest in the series of recordings dedicated to Henry Purcell.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-22, Air Date: 05/30/94
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-16, Air Date: 04/18/94
NOTE: Before the 1993 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht, a poll was taken asking the following question: Of all the repertoire sung by the Tallis scholars, which are the ten best pieces? Ensemble director Peter Phillips joins us to reflect on this process, and why the Allegri “Miserere” is Number One.
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