The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-38, Air Date: 09/19/22
The Cappella Mediterranea has a recent two-CD compilation of the complete madrigals for one and two voices by this composer who “broke the rules of counterpoint to express heightened emotion.”
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-29, Air Date: 07/18/22
Tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro joins us with collaborator Zachary Wilder with his latest recording dedicated to the contrast, confusion, and ”broken mirror” of the early 17th century.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #22-25, Air Date: 06/20/22
Tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro joins us with his recent recording dedicated to the composer, singer, poet and maybe murderer Francesco Rasi (1574-1621).
Read more and hear this show…Program: #21-10, Air Date: 03/01/21
Three recent releases trace Gesualdo’s madrigal writing from Book 2 (1594) to Book 6 (1611).
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