We're exploring early music exchanges between Japan and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Plus we’ll hear music of the cornetto and Bach Collegium Japan.
This week on Harmonia, we’re marking the birth of John Dowland and the death of Gesualdo, and we’re saying goodbye to a friend, oboist Washington McClain.
Music of Robert de Visée performed on a guitar made by Antonio Stradivari in 1679, and on a lute made by Lorenz Greiff in 1610.
Tributes to Johannes Ockeghem and a new recording by the ensemble Diabolus in Musica, directed by Antoine Guerber.
Music from 18th-century Scotland performed by Concerto Caledonia.