The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #93-09, Air Date: 03/01/93
While we often hear music for the sacred service of Holy Week, the period stretching from Ash Wednesday to Easter tends to have suffered benign neglect... though it, too, is filled with beautiful music! This week Father Jerome Weber, Early Music critic for Fanfare Magazine, shares some of his favorite compositions for the Lenten season.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #92-14, Air Date: 04/06/92
Program: #25-03, Air Date: 01/13/25
This recent release by the ensemble Vox Luminis helps remind us of the neglected 17th century German composer, with sacred works for Passiontide.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #24-13, Air Date: 03/25/24
We continue our series dedicated Monteverdi’s teacher Marc-Antonio Ingegneri and his long-neglected sacred settings with the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge and their director, Gareth Wilson.
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