The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #94-37, Air Date: 09/12/94
Note: Ted Libbey, author of the NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection, joins us to share some of the works in early music that are his favorites that could not be included in the original book.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-12, Air Date: 03/09/20
Hopkinson Smith with Mariana Flores, Phantasm and the Lachrimae, and the ensemble L’Archeron with a Greek take on the English composer!
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-38, Air Date: 09/09/19
After a long absence from recording, the Baltimore Consort is back with music from Shakespeare’s plays (and a celebration of their 40th anniversary as a group); we will be joined by two of the founding members to share it all with us.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-18, Air Date: 04/22/19
A Belgian ensemble sings Browne and Ashwell, the new Are Nova release celebrates Taverner and Fayrfax, and an American group gives us Elizabethan sacred and secular.
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