The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-39, Air Date: 09/26/22
November marks the 350th anniversary of the death of the great German composer, who famously introduced the Italian style to his native land. We will trace his life and work in a series of special programs featuring Fr. Jerome Weber as our guide.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-36, Air Date: 09/05/22
Recordings from the Choir of New College, Oxford, a two-CD set by Alamire, and the latest from The Gesualdo Six.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-15, Air Date: 04/05/21
In early spring of 1963, John Elliot Gardiner’s mother created an Easter play for their small church in Dorset; for the 55th anniversary, it was recreated for a special recording project we hear this week.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-21, Air Date: 05/11/20
Motets from Saxony in 1603, music from the Thirty Years War, and Le Petite Bande performing Heinrich Schutz.
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