The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-06, Air Date: 02/07/22
The ensemble Cinquecento was formed with a speciality: composers working in the Hapsburg courts of the sixteenth century. Their latest gives us another of the fine northern French composer who worked in Prague, Vienna, and Innsbruck.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-47, Air Date: 11/09/20
Czech lute and instrumental music from the Codex Jacobides and Polish works by Mielczewskie, Zielenski, Jarzebski and others.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-28, Air Date: 06/29/20
A rarely-recorded mass by Josquin, music for St. Catherine from St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and the almost unknown work of Johannes de Cleve.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #14-29, Air Date: 07/14/14
The latest from Cinquecento looks at songs for the Hapsburg Court, including rarely recorded composers like Jean Guyot and Jacobus Vaet.
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