The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-07, Air Date: 02/13/23
The brilliant lute performer and teacher Hopkinson Smith joins us (for the first time in some 40 years!) with his latest project, dedicated to Francesco Spinacino and Joan Ambrosio Dalza.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-11, Air Date: 03/14/22
Music inspired by the circle of Raphael, love songs from Venice, and the imagination of Marco dall’Aquila.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-38, Air Date: 09/13/21
Before we leave the Josquin 500th services, we hear three recent takes on his work, including a radical reassessment of the composer as a pop icon updating the musical accompaniment to his music (Ondes Martinot!).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-46, Air Date: 11/02/20
Madrigals of Love and Affliction, love songs for Isabella d’Este, and secret love messages.
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