The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #23-50, Air Date: 12/11/23
While we have heard many performances from this great concert series in the past, this time the founder, Louise Basbas, returns to take us through some of her favorite ensembles for the season.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-08, Air Date: 02/21/22
Gabriel Crouch, the director of the early music ensemble Gallicantus, continues to guide us through some of their releases. This week, Dialogues of Sorrow and The Tears of St. Peter.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-48, Air Date: 11/19/18
Madrigals and motets around 1600, 17th century English ayres and songs, and the latest from Les Arts Florissants...
Read more and hear this show…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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