Program: #14-05, Air Date: 01/27/14
Renaissance Italy and Petrarch settings; a remarkable Armenian troubadour; and Renaissance Nuremberg from royal court to the rise of humanism.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #14-05, Air Date: 01/27/14
Renaissance Italy and Petrarch settings; a remarkable Armenian troubadour; and Renaissance Nuremberg from royal court to the rise of humanism.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-39, Air Date: 09/15/08
New releases include the great Hilliard Ensemble returning to their core repertoire of early English vocal music; and former Hilliard member John Potter is back with his latest in the Dowland project series, an unusual compilation entitled Romaria.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-24, Air Date: 06/02/08
NOTE: The Early Music Foundation presented over 60 events in the fall of 2007. This week and next, we celebrate some of the performances given at this festival. This week and next, we celebrate some of the performances given at this festival.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-16, Air Date: 04/07/08
Music books collected by great humanist thinkers are a treasured window into the musical life of the Renaissance--this week, another Musiques Suisses project gives us music from the book of the great Basel legal philosopher (and music lover) Bonifacius Amerbach (1495-1562).
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