The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #01-12, Air Date: 03/19/01
Mass for the Death of a Prince: When the young prince of the house of Guise died soon after his marriage, followed by the death of his young son and mother-in-law, the family turned to Marc-Antoine Charpentier to write one of the most intimate and touching works of the French baroque. We will hear the Ensemble La Fenice from the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #01-48, Air Date: 11/26/01
Our annual listen to new releases appropriate as gifts as we enter the Advent season.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #02-48, Air Date: 12/02/02
Both Marian devotions and meditations on our own passing are appropriate for the Advent season. One of the most beautiful performances from Utrecht 2002 was Le Concert Spiritual directed by Herve Niquet with the Litanies of the Virgin by Charpentier and a very rare requiem by the early Baroque composer Pierre Bouteiller.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #15-25, Air Date: 06/15/15
We continue with Jordi Savall’s latest project, this week from the Treaty of Turin to the War of the Spanish Succession.
NOTE: all of the music on these programs is from the new release/book by Jordi Savall.It is on the Alia Vox label and is CD ASVA 9908.
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