The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #06-44, Air Date: 10/23/06
While most of the secular works by the great Obrecht are lost or fragmentary, the Camerata Trajectina has put together a massive project to reconstruct these once immensely popular pieces.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-41, Air Date: 10/02/06
Two great Franco-Flemish composers, Dendermonde's Johannes Ockeghem and the influential Jacob Obrecht (born in Bergen op Zoom, and working in the great city of Bruges), are among the 30-odd who set masses on this famous tune—we'll hear an import disc with the Capella Fidicina.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-04, Air Date: 01/16/06
This master of the Lowlands is much-beloved among the Dutch early music fans, and the ensemble Odhecaton gives us this grand mass written on a popular tune of the day.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-19, Air Date: 05/04/09
The superb American wind ensemble, with their informed performances of this popular repertoire.
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