The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #21-15, Air Date: 04/05/21
In early spring of 1963, John Elliot Gardiner’s mother created an Easter play for their small church in Dorset; for the 55th anniversary, it was recreated for a special recording project we hear this week.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-05, Air Date: 01/30/94
Read more and hear this show…Program: #94-16, Air Date: 04/18/94
NOTE: Before the 1993 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht, a poll was taken asking the following question: Of all the repertoire sung by the Tallis scholars, which are the ten best pieces? Ensemble director Peter Phillips joins us to reflect on this process, and why the Allegri “Miserere” is Number One.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-36, Air Date: 08/26/19
The longtime director of the Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Choir joins us once again with some of his remarkable history with English Choral music from the Eton Choirbook.
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