The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
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: #21-19, Air Date: 05/03/21
After a long break, one of our most frequent guests returns to share his extraordinary efforts. This week Peter Phillips shares works by Victoria, more from the Josquin cycle, and music by the great Tudor master John Taverner.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-31, Air Date: 07/20/20
Adrian Willaert and his circle at San Marco, the Lamentations of Morales, and sacred song from around 1500 with The Boston Camerata.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-28, Air Date: 06/29/20
A rarely-recorded mass by Josquin, music for St. Catherine from St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and the almost unknown work of Johannes de Cleve.
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