The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-27, Air Date: 07/03/23
The huge collection of motets by Heinrich Isaac (more than 375 works!) were a compendium of appropriate pieces for the entire church year; the new release on the Carus label features many first-time recorded examples.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-30, Air Date: 07/25/22
Angus Smith of the Orlando Consort takes us to the beautiful city of Florence in the 15th century, from Dufay to Binchois, to Isaac (with plenty of anonymous works thrown in).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-52, Air Date: 12/20/21
Some Hieronymus Praetorius, a little Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata, and one more seasonal peek from the great boxed set of Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-51, Air Date: 12/13/21
Music from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century featuring the Saxony Vocal Ensemble and the Schola Heidelberg..
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