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Now is the month of Maying, and English madrigalists weren’t the only ones singing about it! This week on Harmonia, we’ve got music for that marvel...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 59:02
Join us for an Easter celebration this week on Harmonia! We’ll hear how composers from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods created new m...
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- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
When Christian IV of Denmark visited his brother-in-law James Stuart in England, they threw some raucous, wild parties, so not surprisingly King Ch...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
An eclectic Easter celebration awaits you this week, including Bach's cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden, William Byrd's Mass Propers for Easter, pl...
- Added: Mar 26, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In commemoration of Holy Week, we're listening to an unusual setting of the Passion story by Adrian Willaert. With its innovative polyphony and hom...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 58:30
Roll out the red carpet—this week on Harmonia, we’re celebrating some awards, early music style! From production and audio engineering to singing a...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 59:02
If you’ve spent any time in the early European wing at your local art museum, you might have noticed just how musical religious art can be. This we...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 59:02
We're celebrating all things Celtic on this week's show, including music by the Irish harper and bard Turlough O'Carolan, selections from Jordi Sav...
- Added: Mar 05, 2024
- Length: 58:30
In 1433, around 3:00 PM in Scotland in high summer, the sun vanished. This total solar eclipse came to be known as “The Black Hour.” Join us this ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Eclipses are awe-inspiring even today, but imagine witnessing an eclipse in the days before dollar-store glasses. You might not know why the sun wa...
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 59:01
For hundreds of years, the goddess Fortune and her wheel have offered us a way to comprehend the unpredictability of life. This week on Harmonia, w...
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 59:01
This hour, we shall not want for musical settings of the words of King David; his many psalms, his tragic laments, and his instrument of choice—the...
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 59:02
This week on Harmonia, join us on a bohemian escapade of sorts, as we explore baroque music composed by violinist Philipp Jakob Rittler and trumpet...
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 59:02
From epic tales of Charlemagne’s knights to sonnets drenched in lovers’ tears, the act of singing poetry is central to many early music traditions,...
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 58:59
This week on Harmonia, we’re exploring one of “greatest hits” of the Renaissance: a love song called “Je suis desheritée,” and we’ll hear settings ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 59:01
This week on Harmonia, we’re all about that bass — the chaconne, to be specific. From Peru to Paris and the street to the operatic stage, this harm...
- Added: Jan 10, 2024
- Length: 59:01
“Two households, both alike in dignity (In fair Verona, where we lay our scene).” So begins Shakespeare’s well-loved tragedy Romeo and Juliet. On H...
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 59:01
We're celebrating the season of Advent on this week's show, with works like Canite tuba by Giovanni da Palestrina, Charpentier's O Antiphons, Alma ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 58:30
Tired of jingle bells yet? This time of year, we are surrounded by Christmas music. This week on Harmonia, join us for something a little different...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:00
The longest and darkest of nights, the Winter Solstice has been observed across cultures with rituals and feasts celebrating the warmth of communit...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Get ready to burst open the piñata as Harmonia celebrates the traditional Latin American Christmas pageant, Las Posadas, with Renaissance- and Baro...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:02
"Holidays are a great time for music! And this week on Harmonia, we’re going to take a spin through three favorite tunes and enjoy how early compos...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:03
Holidays are a great time for music! On this edition of Harmonia, we’re taking a spin through three favorite tunes and enjoy how early composers an...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:03
The longest and darkest of nights, the Winter Solstice has been observed across cultures with rituals and feasts celebrating the warmth of communit...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Tired of jingle bells yet? This time of year, we are surrounded by Christmas music. On this special holiday edition of Harmonia, join us for someth...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
