Program: #21-53, Air Date: 12/27/21
Some of the late year releases appropriate for the season and a look into 2022.
Read more and hear this show…Programs tagged with: Martin Peerson
A Cavalier Christmas
Program: #18-51, Air Date: 12/10/18
The Ebor Singers return with their first release (after the popular "Music for Troubled Times”) with Christmas Music from the time of the English Civil War.
Read more and hear this show…Music from Tudor England, part II
Program: #13-43, Air Date: 10/21/13
Music from recent releases celebrating the English high Renaissance and the composers from John Taverner (c.1490-1545) to Martin Peerson (c.1571-1651), centering on Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
Read more and hear this show…Music That Should Not Exist
Program: #13-47, Air Date: 11/18/13
Our recent look at English Renaissance Catholic church music left out a huge area of discovery--the madrigalian motet. Music by composers we may associate with secular works (Weelkes, Wilbye, Ravenscroft, etc.) have been reconstructed by tireless early music champion Ross Duffin, and with this new recording by his Quire ensemble from Cleveland, this music once again comes forth from the shadows.
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