The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-45, Air Date: 11/10/03
The Humanist Households and Universities. Without a base of aristocratic patrons, Swiss musicians were especially attracted to the egalitarian nature of the lute. This recent recording centers on the reformist movement around the University of Basle.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-41, Air Date: 10/13/03
A recent recording from the Schola Cantorum in Basel takes us to a great neglected repertoire: In the 15th century, the most popular lute music was for duos—Crawford Young and Karl-Ernst Schroeder recorded an entire disc of this forgotten music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #04-08, Air Date: 02/16/04
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from a recording made of the concert by the Egidius Kwartet from the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-02, Air Date: 01/02/06
The Trinity Baroque directed by Julian Podger give us Thomas Tallis' Missa Puer natus est with other 16th century English music for the season.
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