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The Early Music Show Episodes

  1. Battle Music

    Lucie Skeaping explores composititions with a battle theme, including Biber's Battalia.

  4. David Munrow

    Performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers.

  5. Music from Queen Anne's London

    Lucie Skeaping explores 18th century musical culture, with works by D Purcell and Finger.

  7. 09/09/2007

    Ashley Solomon presents vocal works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Strozzi.

  9. Girolamo Frescobaldi

    Catherine Bott on the Italian composer, who once drew 30,000 people to an organ recital.

  10. William Byrd 08 Jun 13 &

    Catherine Bott presents a comprehensive profile of the composer William Byrd.

  11. The John Marsh Journals

    Lucie Skeaping talks to Brian Robins about the journals of composer John Marsh.

  12. The English Virginals

    Harpsichordist Sophie Yates visits Westwood Manor in Wiltshire.

  13. The Court of Mary, Queen of Scots

    David McGuinness looks at the music which came from the Court of Mary, Queen of Scots.

  14. Roman Holiday

    Hannah French looks at the life and music of Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman.

  16. Queen Mary's Big Belly

    Lucie Skeaping with music surrounding Queen Mary I's 'phantom pregnancy' of 1555.

  18. Giovanni Carbonelli

    Lucie Skeaping, Bojan Cicic and Michael Talbot discuss the Italian composer Carbonelli.

  19. Early Music Show - Lute versus Harpsichord

    Sophie Yates talks to Benjamin Narvey about the relationship between lutes harpsichords.

  20. Convent, Court and Salon

    The role of women musicians and composers in 17th-century Italian musical life.

  21. Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Fiona Talkington looks at the life and music of Joseph de Bologne, Chevalier de St-Georges

  22. Baroque trumpets at the Bate Collection

    Simon Debruslais explores some early examples of trumpets in Oxford's Bate Collection.

  23. Bach's arrival in Cothen

    Hannah French looks at the music composed by Bach around his arrival in Cothen in 1717.

  24. A-Z of Early Music (Part 2)

    Concluding the Early Music Show鈥檚 journey through the musical alphabet with letters N-Z.

  25. A-Z of Early Music (Part 1)

    A whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music. In Part 1: the letters A-M

  26. 18/08/2024

    Hannah French explores the world of early music.

  27. 04/12/2022

    Performance and news from the world of early music.

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