Program: #13-50, Air Date: 12/09/13
Two recent releases from the great English universities are contrasted to Capella Romana's latest dedicated to the story of the Three Holy Children.
Read more and hear this show…The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #13-50, Air Date: 12/09/13
Two recent releases from the great English universities are contrasted to Capella Romana's latest dedicated to the story of the Three Holy Children.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-43, Air Date: 10/21/13
Music from recent releases celebrating the English high Renaissance and the composers from John Taverner (c.1490-1545) to Martin Peerson (c.1571-1651), centering on Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #13-47, Air Date: 11/18/13
Our recent look at English Renaissance Catholic church music left out a huge area of discovery--the madrigalian motet. Music by composers we may associate with secular works (Weelkes, Wilbye, Ravenscroft, etc.) have been reconstructed by tireless early music champion Ross Duffin, and with this new recording by his Quire ensemble from Cleveland, this music once again comes forth from the shadows.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #06-14, Air Date: 03/27/06
Finally released on CD, the concerts by the Currende Ensemble directed by Erik van Nevel tracing the great artist's journeys from Antwerp to London to Italy to his return home again.
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