The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #09-01, Air Date: 01/04/09
After we received all the recordings by this excellent ensemble, we decided to showcase their artistry with more of their performances; we also hear more Christmas music with the Norwegian ensemble Grex Vocalis.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-04, Air Date: 01/19/09
The superb English ensemble Stile Antico performs music for the Virgin Mary by Franco-Flemish composers who worked for the Spanish court (Gombert, Clemens non Papa) as well as the great Iberian creators like Victoria.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-08, Air Date: 02/16/09
The Spanish ensemble Al Ayre Espagnol gives us one of the great monuments of Renaissance art, Victoria's Missa Salve Regina, with other devotional settings for the Virgin Mary.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #09-09, Air Date: 02/23/09
Harry Christophers' ensemble The Sixteen gives us the great Requiem of Tomas Luis de Victoria, written upon the death of his beloved patron, Empress Maria.
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