The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #26-45, Air Date: 11/02/26
Peter Phillips performed with his ensemble live in the great church of San Marco and featured pieces identified with that magnificent structure, including a the mass for four voices Monteverdi wrote for performance there.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #96-44, Air Date: 10/28/96
Continuing an occasional series, Ted Libbey of NPR's Performance Today and author of The NPR Guide To Building A Classical CD Collection shares more favored recordings of the greatest works in early music.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #95-06, Air Date: 02/06/95
Program: #91-38, Air Date: 09/23/91
A conversation with Peter Phillips, director of the Tallis Scholars, featuring performances by the ensemble of music of Tudor England, and a late mass by Palestrina.
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