The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #96-53, Air Date: 12/30/96
1997 Marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the great composer Johannes Ockeghem; the Tallis Scholars mark both that event and their new relationship with Philips records with a recording of masses by Ockeghem; Scholars director Peter Phillips joins Robert Aubry Davis to celebrate this historic recording event.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #26-12, Air Date: 03/16/26
The Cappella Pratensis came to Music Before 1800 in the fall of 2025 in program of two of the earliest requiem settings, by Ockeghem and Pierre de la Rue.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-45, Air Date: 11/07/22
Jordi Savall has brought out a 30th anniversary edition of his collection of recordings dedicated to song books from Spain’s Golden Age.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-18, Air Date: 05/02/94
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