The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #25-25, Air Date: 06/16/25
Ensembles from other countries give us English music; this week, a visit to the great musical instrument museum in Paris led a French quartet to find a “mysterious manuscript” of music from 17th century England.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-08, Air Date: 02/21/22
Gabriel Crouch, the director of the early music ensemble Gallicantus, continues to guide us through some of their releases. This week, Dialogues of Sorrow and The Tears of St. Peter.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-48, Air Date: 11/19/18
Madrigals and motets around 1600, 17th century English ayres and songs, and the latest from Les Arts Florissants...
Read more and hear this show…Program: #00-28, Air Date: 06/22/00
NOTE: The music on this program is from the 1999 Flanders International Music Festival, from the Antwerp "Laus Polyphoniae" series. The Concord Ensemble performed a program called "No Object Dearer": Elegies for Henry, Prince of Wales (d. 1612).
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