The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-32, Air Date: 07/29/19
Chants of the Knights Templar, music for the Holy Grail, and the German prince and minnesinger Wizlav the Younger, whose music wound up in Norway.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-03, Air Date: 01/08/18
Ars Subtilior, Hildegard von Bingen, and the remarkable III Millennio label with the idea of roses in the medieval imagination.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-11, Air Date: 03/06/17
The superb Arcana label has released a five CD set in honor of the 30th anniversary of this medieval ensemble, founded by two pairs of Italian sisters in 1986.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-43, Air Date: 10/17/16
Music of Hildegard von Bingen from the Oxford Girls’ Choir and Vajra Voices, and Benedictine Nuns in Poland.
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