The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #04-14, Air Date: 03/29/04
In one of those oddities in the early music world, a much-anticipated recording of motets by Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377) featuring The Hilliard Ensemble is matched by a most unusual disc.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-52, Air Date: 12/19/05
NOTE: All of the music on this program is performed by the ensemble Early Music New York directed by Frederick Renz.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-18 , Air Date: 04/23/07
The time after Machaut's death was marked by unusual complexities of rhythm, notation, and text called Ars Subtilior--a new disc by the Gothic Voices focuses on the shadowy figure of "Solage," active in French court circles in the 1380s. Not only are some of the pieces recorded of the first time, this disc adds ten works never before attributed to the oeuvre of Solage on stylistic grounds.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-17 , Air Date: 04/16/07
Thanks to the work of Anne Walters Robertson, we have an amazing theory--that the motets 1-17 of Machaut form a vast cycle on the aspects of spiritual love as delineated by the popular mystic and Dominican friar, Blessed Henry Suso in his treatise "Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours"--and with two recent recordings, we can track these astounding works.
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