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Detail from a panel of the The Last Judgement by Fra Angelico, c.1431.

Hotter Than Hell

Hell, the underworld, and areas of evil are home to many of music’s darkest scenes. This week on Harmonia, baroque music featuring portrayals of evil spirits, Lucifer, and Hell. Then, darkness turns to light in our featured release, Epiphany: Biber, Buxtehude, Kapsberber, & Bach, by Three Notch’d Road. Read More »

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The Hilliard Ensemble in 1980

We'll hear a performance from a 1980 cassette tape of the Hilliard Ensemble's first concert in NYC.

The UNT Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra present several different ways of performing the music, just as Giovanni Legrenzi suggests. Check it out!

Listen as Hebrew, Islam, and Christian traditions overlap and diverge as they spread around Europe and Asia, in a performance by ensemble Schola Antiqua.

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Royal Composers

Detail from a portrait of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible by painter Viktor Vasnetsov in 1897.

Throughout the ages, music has been a feature of royal occasions such as coronations, weddings, and so on. But we also have examples of music that was composed by the rulers themselves, as we’ll hear this week on Harmonia.

Detail of the painting Four Seasons in One Head by Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Stylus fantasticus - the very words bring wild, swirling, colorful images leaping into the imagination! This week on Harmonia, we’ll explore this expressive, experimental, new music of the seventeenth century. Plus, we’ll feature work of seventeenth century composer-violinist David Petersen. Join us!

This week on Harmonia, we travel back in time to the happier days of abundant live music, for performances from Early Music America’s 2019 Emerging Artist Showcase, which took place in May 2019 in Bloomington, Indiana.

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