The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-42, Air Date: 10/07/19
The Ensemble Beauty Farm on the Fra Bernardo label is back with a vast new reinterpretation of Obrecht’s Masses Fortuna desperata and Maria Zart (which weighs in at an astounding 55 minutes!).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-12, Air Date: 03/12/18
From the Brabant Ensemble, sacred music of Obrecht; music of Loyset Compere for the Duke of Milan, and sacred music of Lucrezia Borgia’s daughter, Leonora d’Este.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-47, Air Date: 11/19/01
More music celebrating the 500th anniversary of Petrucci's first printed music books.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #02-09, Air Date: 03/04/02
The cultural capital of Europe moves to Belgium this year and we begin commemorating the occasion this week with a gorgeous CD from the ensemble Capilla Flamenca featuring music of Jacob Obrecht, Pierre de la Rue and Josquin Desprez (from the Alamire Foundation).
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