The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #21-33, Air Date: 08/09/21
Les Arts Florissants are back with Volume 3 of their “Airs sérieux et à boire” series; a remarkable tribute to the music inspired by the poetry by the Comtesse de la Suze; and a world-premiere recording of a ballet by Lully.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-24, Air Date: 06/08/15
The latest big boxed set from Jordi Savall looks at music from one of the most formative centuries in European history; this week, the 30 Years War to the Treaty of Nimègue.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-07, Air Date: 02/07/05
All of the music on this program is from a live concert given at the Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht 2004 featuring Johanette Zomer, soprano, and Fred Jacobs, theorbo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-07, Air Date: 02/04/08
Lully was a contemporary of Buxtehude; Muffat and Corelli born a generation later--the Holland Baroque Society gives us the German, Italian and French Baroque sound in the time of the birth of Bach and Handel.
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