The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #07-43, Air Date: 10/15/07
The first of two programs from the brilliant Portland, Oregon ensemble that explores music of the ancient Orthodox church--this program gives us eastern and western laments on the fall in 1453 of the 1000-year-old empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-45, Air Date: 10/29/07
The great French Medieval ensemble has three more discs we have never heard—early Capetian chant, the Transfiguration ceremony from Cluny, and the Miracles of St. Nicholas.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-05, Air Date: 01/28/13
Donald Grieg of the Orlando Consort (and many other groups) has penned a witty take on modern early music scholarship, performance, and the time we all so earnestly try to recreate--we'll hear the author and the music from the book.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #12-11, Air Date: 03/05/12
The superb Brabant Ensemble gives us the grand (and rarely-recorded) Palestrina Mass Ad coenam agni providi.
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