The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #06-18, Air Date: 04/09/06
NOTE: This week, we look back at the Istanbul International Music Festival 2005, with performances of Elizabethan consort music by the international viol ensemble Phantasm. The material for this program is found on the recent recording The Four Temperaments on the Avie label, CD AV2054.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-19, Air Date: 04/11/06
NOTE: Continuing our review of the 2005 Istanbul Festival, we'll hear some of the arias and solo songs of Handel featuring the ensemble Il Complesso Barocco directed by Alan Curtis. This program reflects the recording La Maga Abbandonata ("The abandoned sorceress") which features soprano Simone Kermes and Contralto Maite Beaumont. It is a collaboration between Alan Curtis and mystery writer Donna Leon using three Handel operas with seductive and destructive sorceress characters.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-20, Air Date: 05/07/07
We look at the artistry of Turkish harp soloist Sirin Pancaroglu, who takes us on a musical journey from the early Baroque (Frescobaldi) up to the time of Bach.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-21, Air Date: 05/14/07
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the birth of the great mystic poet--we'll go to his burial place in Konya and hear a are Sufi ceremony.
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