The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #03-45, Air Date: 11/10/03
The Humanist Households and Universities. Without a base of aristocratic patrons, Swiss musicians were especially attracted to the egalitarian nature of the lute. This recent recording centers on the reformist movement around the University of Basle.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-41, Air Date: 10/13/03
A recent recording from the Schola Cantorum in Basel takes us to a great neglected repertoire: In the 15th century, the most popular lute music was for duos—Crawford Young and Karl-Ernst Schroeder recorded an entire disc of this forgotten music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-49, Air Date: 11/27/06
This season, our series from Switzerland will look at Swiss performers and their influence--this week, one of the brightest pupils of the legendary Swiss lutenist Eugen Dombois,
Hopkinson Smith.