The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #05-19, Air Date: 05/02/05
All of the music on this program is from the recording John Browne. Music from the Eton Choirbook featuring the Tallis Scholars directed by Peter Phillips. The works of Browne are in the early folios of the Choirbook, dating from between 1490 and 1500. Aside from the five pieces on this disc, there were originally ten others (five are lost, two incomplete). The recording is Gimell CD 036.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-50, Air Date: 12/09/13
Two recent releases from the great English universities are contrasted to Capella Romana's latest dedicated to the story of the Three Holy Children.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-49, Air Date: 12/02/13
Peter Phillips chose the famous mass by the father of Tudor composers, John Taverner, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Tallis Scholars (who first appeared on the program 32 years ago).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-03, Air Date: 01/14/13
Back to France, Jean Mouton set a chanson by his remarkable older compatriot Loyset Compère, and that rare an amazing piece is the theme of the new recording by The Tallis Scholars (orig. scheduled in Nov.).
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