The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #24-10, Air Date: 03/04/24
Bjarte Eike and his Barokksolistene are back, this time with a look at how the raucous world of Restoration theater allowed the pent-up exuberance of the suppressed pub scene to explode (as tavern backrooms became music houses).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-43, Air Date: 10/23/23
There are few major figures in the field we have not had as a guest in our program’s history; one of these is the great Andrew Parrott with his Taverner Consort. This week, music of Grandi, Lotti, Purcell, and Bach.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-10, Air Date: 03/06/23
The famous sub-label under the Musical Heritage Society has been revived with some lost rarities. This week: “John Dunstable: Sacred and Secular Music" with the Ambrosian Singers, and “Henry Purcell: The 12 Sonatas in Three Parts."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-41, Air Date: 10/10/22
The Oxford Psalms, Naked Byrd Part 2, and the latest from the Tenebrae Ensemble, "When Sleep Comes."
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