The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #08-44, Air Date: 10/20/08
Contentious, controversial, and truly pan-European, Ieper's Jacobus de Kerle has been championed by that most dedicated of Lowlands music proponents, Paul van Nevel with his Huelgas Ensemble--the new disc even includes excepts from the de Kerle Requiem.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-08, Air Date: 02/11/08
The Cappella Amsterdam is back with a vast memorial tribute using the great Requiem of Tomas Luis de Victoria as a framework, with laments from the middles ages interlaced throughout.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-45, Air Date: 10/27/08
The rarely-heard works of the later Flemish composer Philippe Rogier (c.1561-1596), stunningly rediscovered by Philip Cave and his ensemble Magnificat.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #08-09, Air Date: 02/18/08
In addition to the Victoria Requiem, Eric van Nevel directs the Capella Amsterdam in laments by Peter Abelard, Gombert, and the Fleury Manscript.
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