The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-25, Air Date: 06/20/22
Tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro joins us with his recent recording dedicated to the composer, singer, poet and maybe murderer Francesco Rasi (1574-1621).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #17-12, Air Date: 03/13/17
A re-release for the Monteverdi 450th, plus Cavalli’s ravishing Requiem and the work long thought to be the ”first” opera, Peri’s Euridice.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-38, Air Date: 09/12/16
The founder of Hesperion XX and XXI is celebrated with his latest (“Granada 1013-1502") and his first: the newly-reissued 1981 “Battles and Laments” featuring the young Montserrat Figueras.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-28, Air Date: 07/04/16
Arias by two early opera masters (Caccini and Peri), and world premiere proceedings of sacred works of Graziani and Antonio Lotti.
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