The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #04-04, Air Date: 01/19/04
NOTE: All of the music on this program was recorded live at the 2003 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. It features the Capella Currende and Concerto Palatino directed by Erik van Nevel, who argues that composers of the Lowlands defined European music in the Renaissance.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-46, Air Date: 11/07/05
NOTE: All of the music on this program is from the recent release of music of Roland de Lassus with the Cardinall's Musick directed by Andrew Carwood on the ASV Gaudeamus label, CD # GAU 310.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-01, Air Date: 01/04/09
After we received all the recordings by this excellent ensemble, we decided to showcase their artistry with more of their performances; we also hear more Christmas music with the Norwegian ensemble Grex Vocalis.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-13, Air Date: 03/23/09
Our longest single-composer series—over 50 hours of chronological material—was dedicated to the genius from Mons, Roland de Lassus, (also known as Orlando di Lasso and Orlandus Lassus). We begin our three-part series on his sacred music with his setting of the Requiem Mass.
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