The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #86-52, Air Date: 12/28/86
Program: #23-36, Air Date: 09/04/23
The continuing series of the complete madrigals of Don Carlo Gesualdo, the composer’s profound Tenebrae music, and the early Italian madrigals of Heinrich Schutz.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-33, Air Date: 08/09/21
Les Arts Florissants are back with Volume 3 of their “Airs sérieux et à boire” series; a remarkable tribute to the music inspired by the poetry by the Comtesse de la Suze; and a world-premiere recording of a ballet by Lully.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-10, Air Date: 03/01/21
Three recent releases trace Gesualdo’s madrigal writing from Book 2 (1594) to Book 6 (1611).
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