The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #91-27, Air Date: 07/08/91
A sampling of music from 100-1650 A.D. by women composers whose work left an indelible mark on the history of Early Music. Composers to be featured range from Hildegarde von Bingen to women troubadours to the daughters of court poets and artists in early baroque Italy.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #23-23, Air Date: 06/01/23
ModernMedieval Voices is all-female ensemble created by Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek to present programs that combine medieval chant and polyphony with new commissions and music from later eras; she joins us to explore the group’s first release.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-12, Air Date: 03/21/22
Gabriel Crouch, the director of the early music ensemble Gallicantus, continues to guide us through some of their releases. This week, Lassus with the Prophecies of the Sibyls, and "Queen Mary’s Big Belly."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-42, Air Date: 10/11/21
Seraphic Fire has made a new recording of the extraordinary Hildegard von Bingen’s mystery Play of Virtues; we are joined by the ensemble’s director, Patrick Dupre Quigley, to share it with us.
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