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The Early Music Show Episodes

  1. The Early Music Show

    Lucie Skeaping explores John Taverner, who combined Medieval and Renaissance influences.

  2. Utrecht Festival of Early Music 2007

    A programme recorded at the Jacobikerk, in Utrecht, featuring the Holland Baroque Society.

  3. 12/01/2008

    Catherine Bott presents selected highlights from the 2007 Stockholm Early Music Festival.

  4. 06/01/2008

    Lucie Skeaping explores Charpentier's setting of Euripides's great tragedy of Medea.

  5. Feast of Fools

    Lucie Skeaping looks back to the Middle Ages and the period between Christmas and Epiphany

  6. Baroque Dance

    Baroque dance specialist Philippa Waite explores the different styles of various dances.

  7. Das Partiturbuch

    Lucie Skeaping explores 17th-century German music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig.

  8. Padre Antonio Soler

    Catherine Bott presents a portrait of Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler.

  9. Orpheus

    The myth of Orpheus is the inspiration for operas, ballets and other musical works.

  10. William Byrd: Loyal Servant of the Crown and Devout Catholic

    Catherine Bott presents a concert featuring Stile Antico and the Rose Consort of Viols.

  11. Lutheran Vespers for Christmas

    Music from the Lutheran Vesper service, recorded by the 大象传媒 Singers.

  12. 15/12/2007

    Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude.

  13. Masaaki Suzuki

    Catherine Bott is joined by harpsichordist, organist and conductor Masaaki Suzuki.

  14. Alessandro Scarlatti: The Sicilian Godfather of the Oratorio

    Lucie Skeaping looks at Scarlatti and the music he wrote for oratorios in the 18th century

  15. 02/12/2007

    Catherine Bott explores 1685, the year in which Handel, Bach and Scarlatti were all born.

  16. 03/02/2007

    Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera La Calisto and how approaches to it have developed

  17. Bach's Art of Fugue

    Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles that lie behind Bach's the Art of Fugue.

  18. 24/11/2007

    Laurence Cummings explores the life and operas of the composer Reinhard Keiser.

  19. Melodia

    Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about Rask 98, an Icelandic manuscript from 1660.

  20. Mr and Mrs Hasse

    A profile of the German-born composer Hasse, who married mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni.

  21. Charles Burney - Journeyman, Historian and Composer

    Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life of Charles Burney.

  22. 10/11/2007

    Highlights of a concert given by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen.

  23. Viols and Voices

    Catherine Bott and guests discuss combining voices with viols in an ecclesiastical setting

  24. Never the Twain Shall Meet

    Lucie Skeaping surveys the musical legacy of the Middle East's influence on early music.

  25. The Munich Court

    Catherine Bott presents music with links to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

  26. Written in Their Spare Time

    Lucie Skeaping explores the work of the St Mark's musicians of the 16th and 17th centuries

  27. 01/04/2007

    The development of the madrigal, with examples by Verdelot, Willaert and Marenzio.

  28. 21/10/2007

    Catherine Bott looks back at early music on Radio 3, with Andrew Parrot and Graham Dixon.

  29. Made in Britain: The Mackworth Collection

    Catherine Bott visits the collection of music manuscripts built up by the Mackworth family

  30. Buxtehude and Bach

    Cantatas by Buxtehude and Bach performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus.

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