The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
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.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-30, Air Date: 07/13/20
Chant for Emperor Heinrich and his wife Cunigonde, troubadour nights, and the live last collaboration between Jan Gabarek and the Hilliard Ensemble.
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