Music from the Medici Codex, a continuation of our conversation with the Boston Camerata’s Anne Azéma, and the first solo concerto ever composed for the viola.
We've handpicked a variety of early music recordings – new and old – to help get you into the spirit of the holiday season: Bach, Schutz, chant and more.
We'll hear performances from the six finalists of Early Music America’s 2012 Baroque Performance Competition, plus a featured release from Blue Heron.
Two recordings explore a pastiche of musical styles in England and France across several centuries.
2 musicians + 4 viols + 2 lutes = 19 tracks in a rich palette of colors.
Music by Alessandro Scarlatti and his son Domenico, performed by the Houston-based early music ensemble, Ars Lyrica.
Sacred music from Versailles: Music written by French composers, performed by French musicians on a recording sponsored by a French institution.
Erin Headley directs the ensemble Atalante in a recording of "passionate, sensual, macabre and erotic narratives from 17th-century Rome."
Let’s take a quick look back in time…to the year 1715, the pinnacle of Stradivari's "golden period," the Sun King's death, and more.
Let’s take a quick look back in time. . . to the year 1250 and the birth of Giovanni Pisano and Guido Cavalcanti, the death of Leonardo Fibonacci, and more.
Let’s take a quick look back in time, to the year 1700. . .the birth of Michel Blavet and Luigi Vanvitelli, the death of John Dryden, and more...