The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #93-18, Air Date: 05/03/93
Sigismondo D'India was thought to be from the exotic land of Sicily, and while it is not so far away as India, his music was evocative, dramatic and full of vocal tricks. This week, Robert Aubry Davis will spend time with the great Early Music tenor Nigel Rogers, whose latest recording is dedicated entirely to Sigismondo.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #25-20, Air Date: 05/12/25
The latest from the ensemble Les Cris de Paris gives us the challenging late Renaissance Italian school of composers like Gesualdo, Rossi, d’India, and some rare works by Lacorcia and others.
Read more and hear this show…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.
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