The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #25-40, Air Date: 09/29/25
The London Oratory Schola Cantorum directed by Charles Cole gives us works from yet another important musical capital in Italy; with Rome, we naturally revolve around Palestrina and his followers.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-45, Air Date: 11/01/21
The ear of Flemish artist Theodor van Loon, who studied in Rome; sacred music of Alessandro Grandi; and the Requiem of Francesco Cavalli.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-28, Air Date: 07/05/21
The great Italian early music conductor and performer visits us as we hear some composers at the cusp of the Baroque: Luca Marenzio, Alessandro Striggio, and Don Carlo Gesualdo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #20-46, Air Date: 11/02/20
Madrigals of Love and Affliction, love songs for Isabella d’Este, and secret love messages.
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