The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #02-38, Air Date: 09/23/02
Once again, the Alamire foundation weighs in with a superb recording (and story book!) of the works of an imaginary Flemish composer as he journeyed to Italy from Bruges, bringing the Northern style as he went.
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: #15-10, Air Date: 03/02/15
The beautiful editions copied and illustrated by Peter Alamire doubled as code that allowed King Henry VIII to vanquish rivals to the throne; the new recording by the Alamire Ensemble explains it all!
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-08, Air Date: 02/16/15
NOTE: All of the programs once again this month feature recordings that are part of the expanded Naxos Distribution family.
Including two superb new recordings celebrating the Renaissance masters at the Polish court.
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