The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #20-45, Air Date: 10/26/20
Music for vihela and soprano, songs for harp, guitar, and baritone, and A Corte Musical’s “Lisbon Under Ashes: Rediscovered Portuguese Music."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-17, Air Date: 04/15/19
Three views on the early Baroque, with music of Barbara Strozzi, a world-premiere recordings of counter-tenor arias, and the Grammy-award-winning Apollo’s Fire recording, “Songs of Orpheus."
Read more and hear this show…Program: #18-49, Air Date: 11/26/18
Three recordings looking at the crossroads of music and trade between Europe and Islamic countries.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #16-21, Air Date: 05/16/16
Italy from 1580 to 1620 was the birthing ground of the Baroque; this week, the ensemble Constantinople, opera superstar Magdalena Kožená, and the father of Galileo.
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