Harmonia Early Music

Archive for December 2011

December 4, 2011

 

Some gift ideas for the Early Music lover in your life!

Holiday CD Sampler

We’ll hear from Theatre of Voices, Gloriae dei Cantores Schola, The Choir of Westminster Cathedral and more. Maybe you’ll discover something for your wish list!

December 18, 2011

 

Sun King

Dancing In The Court Of The Sun King

We’ll dance at the court of Louis XIV to works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, and sound the bagpipe across time and space! Plus, a featured release by Anonymous 4.

December 19, 2011

 

Gothic painting by Simone Martini

Seasonal Settings And Angelic Appearances

We'll hear renaissance composers’ settings of Christmas chants, and behold angelic visitations. Featured release by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen.

December 7, 2011

 

Members of Fretwork

Fretwork’s Reinterpretation Of The Goldbergs

This week, Bach's influence continues to spread to the string instruments.

December 22, 2011

 

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi by an anonymous Renaissance master

A Charpentier Christmas

This week, a little holiday cheer a la Charpentier.

December 5, 2011

 

Madonna and child with Saint Nicholas on the left and Catherine of Alexandria on the right

Harmonia Time Capsule: Saint Nicholas

Let’s take a quick look at the history of an icon of the Christmas season: jolly old Saint Nicholas.

December 19, 2011

 

From the 1517 print: The Triumphal Procession

Harmonia Time Capsule: 1512

Let’s take a quick look back in time. . . . to the year of the birth of James V, the publishing of an early collection of organ works, and more.

December 26, 2011

 

Taverner gravestone

Harmonia Time Capsule: 1545

Let’s take a quick look back in time...to the year John Taverner died.

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