The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #93-49, Air Date: 12/06/93
During the 1993 Holland Early Music Festival, singers and instrumentalists from many of the best ensembles performing Baroque music today gathered for a spectacular concert of madrigals for large forces. This week's program continues the observance of the 350th anniversary of the death of Claudio Monteverdi, the greatest composer of the late Renaissance and early baroque.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #93-44, Air Date: 11/01/93
In our continuing series of concerts from the Utrecht Early Music Festival, vocalist Anne Azema recreates the medieval tradition of story-telling songs often sung by women to groups of other women as they worked: from tales of love to fabulous stories of unicorns and knightly adventure.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #93-10, Air Date: 03/08/93
From 1400–1600 many of the most accomplished musical giants were of Franco-Flemish origin: Orlande de Lassus, Guillaume Dufay, and Giaches de Wert, to name just a few. In this live performance from the 1992 Holland Early Music Festival at Utrecht, the Netherlands Chamber Choir features the music that traveled south and west with Flemish composers to enrich the rest of Europe musically.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #93-47, Air Date: 11/22/93
November 28, 1643 was the death date of the great Monteverdi. All over the world there will be celebrations of the 350th anniversary of this event, and this week Robert Aubry Davis will present a special commemoration.
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