The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-43, Air Date: 10/27/03
In a happy mixture of many nations, the Swiss ensemble Lucidarium gave in concert in Utrecht featuring the first great Lowlands composer to venture into Italy, Johannes Ciconia, along with the Venetians who were working in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-20, Air Date: 05/11/15
She was a friend to many in the early music world (including us); this week, music from her last projects with the Medieval Women’s Choir and Shira Kammen.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-14, Air Date: 03/28/05
This program features three new releases in medieval music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-18 , Air Date: 04/23/07
The time after Machaut's death was marked by unusual complexities of rhythm, notation, and text called Ars Subtilior--a new disc by the Gothic Voices focuses on the shadowy figure of "Solage," active in French court circles in the 1380s. Not only are some of the pieces recorded of the first time, this disc adds ten works never before attributed to the oeuvre of Solage on stylistic grounds.
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