The Early Music Show
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The Early Music Show - 01/03/2008
John Rich: Lucie Skeaping talks to Jeremy Barlow about the contribution to London's theatrical world of John Rich, one of the city's most celebrated impresarios and entertainers.
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The Early Music Show - 01/04/2007
Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi.
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The Early Music Show - 02/12/2007
Handel, JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti were all born in 1685. Catherine Bott puts this year into the context of the musical world the trio were born into.
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The Early Music Show - 03/02/2007
Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera La Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard.
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The Early Music Show - 04/01/2009
Catherine Bott delves into her personal record collection as she traverses the Renaissance.
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The Early Music Show - 04/10/2008
To mark the Orlando Consort's 20th anniversary, founder members Angus Smith and Donald Grieg talk to Catherine Bott about the ensemble's projects and repertoire.
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The Early Music Show - 05/07/2008
Catherine Bott talks about composers who worked at the court of Christian IV of Denmark. The music includes works by Dowland, Bertolusi, Schutz, Hans Nielsen and Mogens Pederson.
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The Early Music Show - 05/10/2008
Catherine Bott examines the life and music of 17th-century composer Dr John Blow - organist at Westminster Abbey, teacher of Henry Purcell and loyal court musician to four monarchs.
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The Early Music Show - 06/01/2008
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier.
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The Early Music Show - 06/07/2008
Lucie Skeaping presents the programme from the 2008 York Early Music Festival, welcoming some of the performers, including Rachel Podger, Robin Blaze and Le Jardin Secret.
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The Early Music Show - 07/09/2008
Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme of music written in celebration of 2008's 475th anniversary of the birth of Queen Elizabeth I.
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The Early Music Show - 08/04/2007
Catherine Bott traces the development of the violin concerto in Italy, with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. Music includes works by Legrenzi, Torelli, Taglietti and Locatelli.
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The Early Music Show - 08/06/2008
Catherine Bott introduces baroque music performed by violinist Jennifer Pike and the Manchester Camerata under conductor Nicholas Kraemer. With Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
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The Early Music Show - 08/11/2008
With guidance from Duncan Bull from the Rijksmuseum and David Fallows from Manchester University, Catherine Bott studies the earliest Italian portrait to characterise a professional musician.
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The Early Music Show - 09/02/2008
Versailles and Paris Month: Musicians of Versailles. Catherine Bott looks at some of the composers employed by the French royal family from the Louis XIII era up to the Revolution.
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The Early Music Show - 09/09/2007
Ashley Solomon presents a programme of music from the Italian Renaissance, with sacred and secular vocal works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Strozzi.
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The Early Music Show - 09/11/2008
Lucie Skeaping encounters medieval Hurdy-Gurdys, Spinets and Virginals, a tale that the Dulcimer is as old as the bible, overtures and interludes as she traces the history of Symphonies.
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The Early Music Show - 10/01/2009
Lucie Skeaping talks to Lynda Sayce about her work with lute ensemble Chordophony and her research into the sound and repertoire of the lute ensembles used in Renaissance courts.
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The Early Music Show - 10/11/2007
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen, in a programme including John Taverner's Western Wind Mass.
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The Early Music Show - 11/01/2009
Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert given at the 2008 Dresden Festival. Countertenor Andreas Scholl and Accademia Bizantina perform arias written for the castrato Senesino.
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The Early Music Show - 11/02/2006
Catherine Bott talks to Maggie Cole about two great harpsichordists of the early 20th century, Wanda Landowska and Violet Gordon Woodhouse.
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The Early Music Show - 11/11/2007
Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of Charles Burney, an 18th-century music-writer and teacher who knew the great musical figures of his day.
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The Early Music Show - 11th-Century Fraud - Ademar's Apostolic Mass
Lucie Skeaping explores the extraordinary story of the earliest-known medieval composer for whom a compositional autograph survives: Ademar de Chabannes and his Mass for St Martial.
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The Early Music Show - 12/01/2008
Catherine Bott presents selected highlights from the 2007 Stockholm Early Music Festival, including a performance by young Swedish ensemble Goteborg Baroque.
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The Early Music Show - 12/04/2008
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor: Catherine Bott traces the life of Charles V through the music which he would have heard and with which he surrounded himself.
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The Early Music Show - 12/07/2009
A live concert from the York Early Music Festival, which reflects the Purcell, Handel and Haydn anniversaries and looks at lifelines from the medieval to the Baroque.
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The Early Music Show - 13/09/2008
Lucie Skeaping looks at the lives and music of the Stamitz family - father and two sons from the late 18th century in Dresden..
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The Early Music Show - 14/09/2008
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2007 Flanders Festival, including performances by Ensemble Clement Janequin, Capilla Flamenca, Ensemble Faenza and lutenist Paul O'Dette.
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The Early Music Show - 15/12/2007
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude. She travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life.
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The Early Music Show - 15th-century English composer Nicholas Ludford
Lucie Skeaping talks to conductor Andrew Carwood about the music of the 15th-century English composer Nicholas Ludford. Including a performance of the motet Domine Jesu Christe.
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The Early Music Show - 16/11/2008
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme featuring the music of the Italian composer, Alessandro Stradella.
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The Early Music Show - 17/02/2007
Andrew Manze charts the life and career of the 18th-century Italian violinist and composer Francesco Maria Veracini. Performers include Bergen Barokk and John Holloway.
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The Early Music Show - 18/01/2009
Simon Lole explores the treasure trove of 16th century English keyboard music known as the Mulliner Book, which contains music by Tallis, Redford, Taverner, Blitheman and Tye.
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The Early Music Show - 19/07/2009
Catherine Bott presents a performance of John Taverner's Missa Corona Spirea by the Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Phillips, given as part of the York Early Music Festival 2009.
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The Early Music Show - 20/07/2008
Lucie Skeaping traces the early years of Henry Purcell, looking at how he came under the influence of different composers and church musicians, who were to shape his musical future.
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The Early Music Show - 20/09/2008
Catherine Bott introduces a recording of Purcell anthems performed by the Gabrieli Consort, directed by Paul McCreesh, from the 2008 Brinkburn Festival in Northumberland.
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The Early Music Show - 21/10/2007
As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Catherine Bott hosts a discussion looking back at Radio 3's output of early music. Guests include Andrew Parrott and Graham Dixon.
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The Early Music Show - 22/04/2007
Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate the themes included in George Herbert's short but meditative poem The Pulley.
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The Early Music Show - 24/11/2007
Harpsichordist and conductor Laurence Cummings explores the life and operas of composer Reinhard Keiser, who was an influence on Handel.
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The Early Music Show - 25/07/2009
Catherine Bott with highlights of a concert from the York Early Music Festival 2009. Fabio Bonizzoni directs La Risonanza in a programme of Handel and his Italian contemporaries.
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The Early Music Show - 26/05/2007
Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner.
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The Early Music Show - 27/01/2008
Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert given by Le Concert d'Astree at the Galerie des Batailles as part of the Louis XV weekend. With works by Leclair, Rameau and Dauvergne.
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The Early Music Show - 29/06/2008
Lucie Skeaping interviews musician and publisher Ian Gammie about Charles Burney's journey through Europe in the 1770s, as he looked for material for his book A History of Music.
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The Early Music Show - 29/11/2008
500 years ago this year, Michelangelo began to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Lucie Skeaping traces this monumental and now iconic artistic achievement in more detail.
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The Early Music Show - 31/08/2008
Catherine Bott explores Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. In 1733 it was considered controversial and revolutionary but the opera is now thought to be one of Rameau's finest achievements.
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The Early Music Show - A Medieval Easter
Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert of medieval Easter music given by Ensemble Peregrina at the 2009 York Early Music Festival.
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The Early Music Show - Accademia Bizantina
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert given at the 2010 Schwetzingen Festival by Accademia Bizantina, with soprano Roberta Invernizzi. With Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Handel.
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The Early Music Show - Acis and Galatea
Acis and Galatea: Lucie Skeaping looks at one of Handel's most popular works. With excerpts from recordings conducted by Trevor Pinnock, John Eliot Gardiner and Adrian Boult.
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The Early Music Show - Aldeburgh Festival 2010: La Nuova Musica
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given at Blythburgh church in Suffolk as part of the 2010 Aldeburgh Festival, with La Nuova Musica performing music by Gabrieli and Schutz.
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The Early Music Show - Alessandro Scarlatti: The Sicilian Godfather of the Oratorio
Alessandro Scarlatti - Sicilian Godfather of the Oratorio: Lucie Skeaping looks at the life of the Sicilian-born composer and the music he wrote for oratorios in the 18th century.
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The Early Music Show - Alla Francesca at the 2009 York Early Music Festival
As part of a programme exploring the Black Death's impact on early music, Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert by Alla Francesca from the 2009 York Early Music Festival.
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The Early Music Show - Amarcord/York Early Music Competition
Catherine Bott presents German a capella group Amarcord at the 2009 Schwetzingen Festival, plus two finalists from the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition.
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The Early Music Show - An all Vivaldi concert
Catherine Bott presents highlights of an all Vivaldi concert by Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante given as part of the Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci 2008.
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The Early Music Show - An Early Music Christmas
Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping introduce a selection of their own favourite Christmas music from centuries past as they celebrate an Early Music Christmas.
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The Early Music Show - Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra
Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert given by organist Andrea Marcon and the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Including Handel, Storace, Domenico Scarlatti, Pasquini and Bach.
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The Early Music Show - Andreas Scholl on Oswald von Wolkenstein
Lucie Skeaping talks to countertenor Andreas Scholl about his career as a live performer and recording artist, and about his focus on the music of Oswald von Wolkenstein.
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The Early Music Show - Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara: Catherine Bott explores the life and music of the Venetian born baroque composer Antonio Caldara.
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The Early Music Show - Antonio de Cabezon
Catherine Bott presents a profile of 16th century composer Antonio de Cabezon. Blind from childhood, he spent his career serving the Spanish monarchy as organist and composer.
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The Early Music Show - Apollo's Fire
Catherine Bott introduces highlights of the London debut concert given by Apollo's Fire, directed by Jeannette Sorrell, featuring repertoire by Vivaldi, Handel and Rameau.
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The Early Music Show - Art and Early Music Month
Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping present a series of programmes examining the many links between art and early music
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The Early Music Show - Artist Profile - Ton Koopman
Catherine Bott talks to Dutch organist, harpsichordist and conductor Ton Koopman. He formed his first baroque orchestra aged 25 and in 1979 founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
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The Early Music Show - Bach in Cothen
Catherine Bott looks at the time Bach spent working in the German court at Cothen, a period which resulted in some of his most notable instrumental music.
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The Early Music Show - Bach in Leipzig
Lucie Skeaping examines Bach's time in the German town of Leipzig, where he remained from 1723 until his death in 1750.
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The Early Music Show - Bach's Art of Fugue
Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles that lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece the Art of Fugue - considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint.
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The Early Music Show - Bach's St Mark Passion
Catherine Bott explores interpretations of Bach's St Mark Passion, a work presumed lost but for references and a text by Bach's librettist 'Picander'.
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The Early Music Show - Baroque Dance
Baroque Dance: Baroque dance specialist Philippa Waite guest presents this edition, looking at the different styles of various dances. With music by Lully, Bach, Handel and Rameau.
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The Early Music Show - Baroque Fever
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given at the 2010 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, in which the ensemble Baroque Fever perform sonatas from 17th century Italy.
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The Early Music Show - Battle Music
Battle Music: Lucie Skeaping explores compositions with a battle theme. Including works by Schmelzer, Scheidt and Janequin.
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The Early Music Show - Brighton Early Music Festival 2007
Coverage of the festival specialising in early music concerts and recitals
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The Early Music Show - Brighton Early Music Festival 2009
Lucie Skeaping presents a special programme from the Sallis Benny Theatre for the 2009 Brighton Early Music Festival. With festival directors Deborah Roberts and Clare Norburn.
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The Early Music Show - Brighton EMF Mantra
Lucie Skeaping presents the Orlando Consort in concert at 2009's Brighton Early Music Festival. With tabla player Kuljit Bhamra, sitar player Jonathan Mayer and singer Shahid Khan.
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The Early Music Show - Buxtehude and Bach
A concert of cantatas by Buxtehude and Bach, by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Ton Koopman, given in May at St Mary's Church, Lubeck.
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The Early Music Show - Caravaggio and Music
Catherine Bott talks to art critic, writer and broadcaster Andrew Graham-Dixon about the Italian painter Caravaggio and some of the musical references found in his work.
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The Early Music Show - Carl Heinrich Graun
Catherine Bott explores the life and music of German composer Carl Heinrich Graun, who spent much of his career in the service of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
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The Early Music Show - Catherine Bott
Catherine Bott presents the programme from the Sallis Benney theatre at the University of Brighton, as part of the 2008 Brighton Early Music Festival.
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The Early Music Show - Catherine Bott
Catherine Bott comes live from the Brighton Early Music Festival, in conversation with the esteemed countertenor, James Bowman.
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The Early Music Show - Charivari Agreable
Lucie Skeaping hosts highlights of a concert by Charivari Agreable at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, featuring songs and anthems linked with the city of Oxford.
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The Early Music Show - Children of the Revolution
Lucie Skeaping presents a two-part series looking at the music of the French Revolution
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The Early Music Show - Christmas Carols
Catherine Bott looks back on the origin of the Christmas carol and roots out some of the original versions of some of today's popular tunes.
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The Early Music Show - Christopher Hogwood
Catherine Bott talks to distinguished conductor, keyboardist and musicologist Christopher Hogwood about his career, and plays music from his celebrated collection of recordings.
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The Early Music Show - Claudio Scimone
Catherine Bott meets Claudio Scimione, conductor and founder of I Solisti Veneti, the baroque group which made some of the first recordings of Vivaldi operas and concertos.
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The Early Music Show - Clemens non Papa
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of the intriguingly named Jacobus Clemens non Papa - one of the most successful Flemish composers of the 16th century.
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The Early Music Show - Composer Portrait: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Catherine Bott presents a profile of Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann, who despite being renowned as an organist and composer during his lifetime, died in poverty.
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The Early Music Show - Composer Profile - Giovanni Pergolesi
Catherine Bott marks the 300th anniversary of Pergolesi's birth, exploring his orchestral and choral music, as well as the comic opera La Serva Padrona.
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The Early Music Show - Composer Profile: Torelli
Lucie Skeaping presents music by the 17th century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist Giuseppe Torelli, most famous for his trumpet concertos.
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The Early Music Show - Concerto Copenhagen
Highlights of a 2008 concert from Copenhagen's Garrison Church. Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) and John Holloway (violin) perform French and Italian baroque music.
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The Early Music Show - Countertenor David Daniels
Catherine Bott interviews American countertenor David Daniels about his stage and recording career, and chooses music from some of his discs, including works by de la Torre.
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The Early Music Show - Curtals, Dulcians, Fagotts and Bassoons
Lucie Skeaping looks at how the bassoon developed from its forerunner - the curtel, dulcian or bajon, with the help of experts Maggie Kilbey and Andrew Watts. With music by Schutz.
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The Early Music Show - Dancing in Tetuan
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert of Moroccan and Sephardic music given by Joglaresa at the 2009 Brighton Early Music Festival.
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The Early Music Show - Dartington 2010
Lucie Skeaping visits the Dartington International Summer School, an annual educational and performance event with a strong focus on early music
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The Early Music Show - Das Partiturbuch
Lucie Skeaping focuses on a collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig, which features composers from all over Germany.
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The Early Music Show - David McGuinness at the 2009 Mananan Festival
Catherine Bott presents a concert of French and Scottish keyboard music, given by harpsichordist David McGuinness at the 2009 Mananan International Festival.
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The Early Music Show - David Munrow
David Munrow: As part of Radio 3's 40th anniversary season, Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of one of this country's most influential early music pioneers, David Munrow.
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The Early Music Show - Delights from the Pleasure Gardens
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert from the 2010 Brighton Early Music Festival, given by the ensemble Passacaglia, with music by Handel, Oswald, Geminiani and Arne.
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The Early Music Show - Derek Lee Ragin
Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert given by Florilegium and countertenor Derek Lee Ragin at the 2008 Wyastone Lees Festival. With music by Vivaldi, Handel and Quantz.
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The Early Music Show - Dimitrie Cantemir
Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and work of scholar and musicologist Dimitrie Cantemir, who in 1710 compiled the Book of the Science of Music, charting 17th century Ottoman music.
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The Early Music Show - Dom Dinis - King of Portugal
Catherine Bott explores the musical legacy and life of King Dinis I, who both encouraged musicians and wrote music himself in 13th-century Portugal.
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The Early Music Show - Domenico Zipoli
Catherine Bott explores the life and music of Domenico Zipoli, a contemporary of Bach and Handel who seemed to disappear from European musical life just as he was making his mark.
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The Early Music Show - Dr John Bull
Lucie Skeaping explores the troubled life of British composer Dr John Bull and his music. He was blighted by poverty and was a victim of highway robbers and pirates.
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The Early Music Show - Dufay's Europe
Lucie Skeaping reflects on the career of the composer Guillaume Dufay, who spent much of his career working in some of the most active political centres of the day.
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The Early Music Show - Early Music Developments in Mexico
Lucie Skeaping talks to Jeffrey Skidmore about musical developments in Mexico from the 16th to the start of the 18th century. With works by Franco, Ignacio de Jerusalem and Sumaya.
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The Early Music Show - EBU: Ambronay Festival
EBU - Ambronay Festival: Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given in the Abbey in Ambronay, with Choir of King's College, Cambridge performing Handel and Purcell.
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The Early Music Show - EBU concert: Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert of French Baroque music given by Les Talens Lyriques with soprano Celine Scheen, directed by Christophe Rousset.
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The Early Music Show - EBU Concert: Sara Mingardo and Rinaldo Alessandrini
EBU Concert: Sara Mingardo and Rinaldo Alessandrini: Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given at the Vienna Konzerthaus featuring Italian baroque arias.
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The Early Music Show - EBU - Zefiro Ensemble
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a chamber concert given by Ensemble Zefiro in Prague in 2009. Music is by CPE Bach, Telemann and Handel, as well as Schaffrath and Platti.
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The Early Music Show - Echo du Danube: '...always a bit of madness'
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given as part of the 2010 Summer Festival of Early Music in Prague by the Austrian based ensemble Echo du Danube.
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The Early Music Show - Edinburgh Festival 2010: Florilegium
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given by Florilegium at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival, featuring recently unearthed Bolivian repertoire.
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The Early Music Show - Edinburgh International Festival 2007
Highlighs of concerts and recitals recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival
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The Early Music Show - Edinburgh International Festival 2008
Catherine Bott presents highlights of concerts from the Edinburgh International Festival 2008
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The Early Music Show - Edward III
Lucie Skeaping is joined by historian Ian Mortimer to explore the society and musical culture of England under Edward III. It was a time when English became the lingua franca.
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The Early Music Show - Emilio's Wedding
Emilio's Wedding: Catherine Bott looks back on the life of Emilio de Cavalieri, famous for co-ordinating the music for one of the most lavish wedding celebrations in history.
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The Early Music Show - Ensemble Elyma
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of Latin American music from Ensemble Elyma at Greyfriars' Kirk in Edinburgh - an attempt to reconstruct the sound of a Bolivian colonial fiesta.
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The Early Music Show - Ensemble Inegal at Cesky Krumlov
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given at Cesky Krumlov Castle by soprano Gabriela Eibenova with Ensemble Inegal. Featuring music by Vivaldi and local composer Johann Brentner.
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The Early Music Show - Ensemble Tourbillon and Noemi Kiss
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given in 2008 by Ensemble Tourbillon and soprano Noemi Kiss. Music includes arias and sonatas by Fux, Porsile and Abel.
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The Early Music Show - Eustache du Caurroy
Andrew Carwood presents a programme of sacred music by little-known 16th century French composer Eustache du Caurroy, recorded by the BBC Singers.
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The Early Music Show - Feast of Fools
Feast of Fools: Lucie Skeaping looks back to the Middle Ages and the period between Christmas and Epiphany, when the world was turned on its side, a time of parody and foolery.
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The Early Music Show - Fragments for the End of Time
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given by members of the early music group Sequentia, with texts and music from different cultures on the subject of the end of time.
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The Early Music Show - Freiburg Baroque
Lucie Skeaping visits southwestern Germany to profile the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Founded in the mid 1980s, the ensemble is now one of the leading period ensembles in the world.
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The Early Music Show - French Airs de Cour
Catherine Bott explores the background to the Air de Cour or French court song, a hugely influential kind of music with a distinctive and individual atmosphere.
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The Early Music Show - French Airs de Cour
Catherine Bott celebrates the delights of the Air de Cour or Renaissance French court song, an influential type of music with a distinctive and individual ambience.
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The Early Music Show - Gainsborough's Georgian England
Catherine Bott meets art historian Michael Rosenthal to discover what Thomas Gainsborough's paintings of musical subjects tell us about music in late 18th century England.
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The Early Music Show - German Organ Mass
Organist Simon Lole explores Bach's so-called German Organ Mass, a work full of codes and symbolism, and part of the collection of four great keyboard works, Clavierubung.
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The Early Music Show - Ghostwriter: The Story of Henri Desmarest
Lucie Skeaping explores the extraordinary life and music of French composer Henri Desmarest, who was ghost writer of grands motets for one of Louis XIV chapel directors.
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The Early Music Show - Giovanni Croce
Robert Hollingworth explores the life and work of Venetian composer Giovanni Croce, a contemporary of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli at Saint Mark's.
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The Early Music Show - Girolamo Frescobaldi
Catherine Bott looks back on the life and music of the composer Frescobaldi, whose brilliance was such that 30,000 people attended his first performance at St Peter's in Rome.
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The Early Music Show - Graupner and Bach - Filling Kuhnau's Boots
Catherine Bott explores how in the 18th century German composer Johann Christoph Graupner gave Bach vital help with his career.
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The Early Music Show - Halley's Comet
Lucie Skeaping explores the music which accompanied the return of Halley's Comet to our skies between 1066 and 1759.
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The Early Music Show - Handel and Steffani in Hanover
Handel and Steffani in Hanover: Lucie Skeaping explores Handel's time in Germany and his relationship with his predecessor as musical director in Hanover.
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The Early Music Show - Handel the Gourmand
Lucie Skeaping talks to chef Clarissa Dickson Wright about Handel's love of food, and eating and drinking habits in the composer's day.
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The Early Music Show - Handel Week - Eight Great Suites
Catherine Bott is joined by harpsichordist Laurence Cummings to discuss Handel's keyboard music. They focus on the Eight Great Suites for harpsichord.
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The Early Music Show - Handel Week - Handel's Chamber Music
Catherine Bott talks with keyboard player Richard Egarr about Handel's chamber works and the relationship between the composer and his publisher John Walsh.
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The Early Music Show - Handel's Borrowing
Catherine Bott explores Georg Friedrich Handel's controversial and frequent musical 'borrowings', which in today's world of music copyright would possibly be considered plagiarism.
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The Early Music Show - Harmonic Inspiration
Harmonic Inspiration: Lucie Skeaping explores Vivaldi's ground-breaking set of concertos for one, two or four violins entitled L'Estro Armonico, which were published 300 years ago.
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The Early Music Show - Haydn and the Esterhazy Family
Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to Haydn's 29-year tenure under the patronage of the Esterhazy family in Hungary. She is joined by musicologist and Haydn expert Balasz Mikusi
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The Early Music Show - Helsinki Baroque Orchestra/York Early Music Young Artists Finalists
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra as part of the 2009 Schwetzingen Festival. Music includes Roman, Agrell and Stamitz.
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The Early Music Show - Henry VII and Philip the Handsome
On the 500th anniversary in 2009 of Henry VII's death, Catherine Bott explores the chance meeting of the King with Philip the Handsome and his musical entourage.
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The Early Music Show - Henry VIII
Lucie Skeaping presents a selection of secular music from the so-called "Henry VIII" manuscript, including works by Henry VIII himself, Cornysh and Fayrfax, both important musicians in Henry's court.
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The Early Music Show - Henry VIII Choirbook
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the accession of Henry VIII, Lucie Skeaping talks to David Skinner about the motets in a choirbook gifted to Henry and his first wife.
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The Early Music Show - Highlights from the 2008 Gottingen Handel Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2008 Gottingen Handel Festival, with music by John Dowland, William Lawes, John Jenkins, Giles Farnabye, William Byrd and Thomas Arne.
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The Early Music Show - His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Catherine Bott talks to Jeremy West and Jamie Savan from the group, considered one of the foremost wind ensembles in the world. Featuring music by Grillo and Gabrieli.
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The Early Music Show - Ich bin ein Hamburger
Catherine Bott presents music by composers who were native to or residents of Hamburg. Including works by Praetorius, Weckmann, Scheidemann, Conradi, Handel, Telemann and CPE Bach.
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The Early Music Show - Imaginarium with Enrico Onofri
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by violinist Enrico Onofri and his group Imaginarium at St John's, Smith Square, as part of the 2010 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.
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The Early Music Show - Inspiring Lutenists
Inspiring Lutenists: Lucie Skeaping talks to lutenist Elizabeth Kenny about two performers who inspired her - Robert Spencer and Nigel North. With music by Dowland and Bach.
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The Early Music Show - Instrumental to the Baroque
Violinists Alison Bury, Bjarte Eike and Daniel Hope join Catherine Bott to discuss how period performance practice has changed since the early music revival of the 1960s.
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The Early Music Show - Israel in Egypt
Catherine Bott provides a guide to Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, and with musical examples highlights its more unusual characteristics.
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The Early Music Show - Jean-Marie Leclair
Lucie Skeaping considers the evidence concerning the inexplicable murder in October 1764 of Jean-Marie Leclair, one of the foremost French violinists and composers of his day.
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The Early Music Show - John Stanley
Lucie Skeaping profiles 18th-century organist, violinist and composer John Stanley, blind from the age of two, but who succeeded in the music world thanks to his memory.
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The Early Music Show - Jordi Savall - Schwetzingen
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given by Jordi Savall and friends as part of the 2010 Schwetzingen Festival. Including music from Spain, Persia and Afghanistan.
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The Early Music Show - Kudsi Erguner: Islamic Mystics and Mevlevi Sufi
Kudsi Erguner - Islamic Mystics and Mevlevi Sufi: Catherine Bott talks to Kudsi Erguner, master of the Ney flute and traditional Mevlevi Sufi, about the music of the Sufi tradition.
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The Early Music Show - La Capella Ducale and Musica Fiata, Köln
Catherine Bott presents Musica Fiata and La Capella Ducale at the 2010 York Early Music Festival in a programme of German wedding music from the time of the Thirty Years War.
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The Early Music Show - La Ciaccona/York Early Music Festival Young Artists
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given in the Castle in Grandson, Switzerland, by recorder ensemble La Ciaccona, with music by Vivaldi, Merula, Albinoni and Veracini.
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The Early Music Show - La Fenice
Catherine Bott with highlights of a concert given in 2008 in Villars-sur-Glane in Switzerland, featuring the ensemble La Fenice directed by Jean Tubery with soprano Nuria Rial.
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The Early Music Show - La Querelle des Bouffons
Lucie Skeaping considers the background to the Qurelle des Bouffons, a historically significant 'musical war' in the 1750s about the respective merits of Italian and French opera.
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The Early Music Show - La Reverdie - recorded at York Early Music Festival 2008
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by La Reverdie at the 2008 York Early Music Festival, featuring music that traces Dufay's early Italian journeys.
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The Early Music Show - Le Balet Comique de la Royne
Lucie Skeaping explores classical ballet's origins, which can be found in the balet comique de la royne, a stage entertainment held at the court of Catherine de Medici in 1581.
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The Early Music Show - Le Concert Spirituel
Versailles and Paris Month: Le Concert Spirituel. Catherine Bott meets the director of Le Concert Spirituel, the first concert society in France specialising in grands motets.
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The Early Music Show - Le Concert Spirituel
Catherine Bott talks to Herve Niquet and Jean-Paul Montagnier about the composers and perfomers associated with Le Concert Spirituel in the 18th century.
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The Early Music Show - Le Jardin Secret
Lucie Skeaping profiles prize-winning group Le Jardin Secret, and meets soprano Elizabeth Dobbin and harpsichordist David Blunden. Music includes works by Rossi, Campra and Fux.
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The Early Music Show - Legrenzi - The Forgotten Venetian
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and work of Giovanni Legrenzi, one of the musical stars of his day, who performed and composed in many genres in the 17th century.
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The Early Music Show - Les Arts Florissants
Catherine Bott celebrates 30 years of the work of Les Arts Florissants and their director William Christie, and plays a selection of the ensemble's recordings.
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The Early Music Show - L'homme arme melody
Catherine Bott talks to Edward Wickham about the L'homme arme melody, used in many 15th and 16th century mass settings. Featuring examples by Busnois, Josquin and Palestrina.
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The Early Music Show - Live from the Brighton Early Music Festival
Lucie Skeaping visits the 2010 Brighton Music Festival and introduces live music from performers such as I Flautisti, Ensemble Amaranthos and The Artisans.
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The Early Music Show - London Handel Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the London Handel Festival and talks to several of the 2010 festival's key protagonists, including musical director Laurence Cummings.
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The Early Music Show - London Handel Festival Singing Competition 2010
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the final of the 2010 London Handel Festival Singing Competition, with the London Handel Orchestra directed by Laurence Cummings.
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The Early Music Show - Lucie Skeaping
Lucie Skeaping visits Paris, where she meets Benjamin Bagby and Katarina Livljanic of the Sorbonne to discuss how medieval composers influenced the development of Western music.
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The Early Music Show - Lufthansa Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, featuring a performance by Musica ad Rhenum.
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The Early Music Show - Lufthansa Festival 2008
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the 2008 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, with soprano Elin Manahan Thomas performing with the group Concordia.
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The Early Music Show - Lully Lullay
Lucie Skeaping explores the art of the lullaby, from ancient melody to Elizabethan song, and discovers how the form offers inspiration to the world of early music.
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The Early Music Show - Lully's Paris
Lucie Skeaping considers the life and music of Jean-Baptiste Lully by exploring some of the sites in central Paris associated with the composer.
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The Early Music Show - Lutheran Vespers for Christmas
Lutheran Vespers for Christmas: Lucie Skeaping presents music from the Lutheran Vesper service, recorded by the BBC Singers with conductor David Hill and organist Iain Farrington.
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The Early Music Show - Machaut
Catherine Bott explores the impact on early music of one of the deadliest pandemics in human history - the 14th century Black Death. Including works by Machaut and and Landini.
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The Early Music Show - Made in Britain: The Mackworth Collection
Made in Britain: The Mackworth Collection. Catherine Bott visits Cardiff University, home to the Mackworth Collection. Includes music by Sandoni, Hasse, Bononcini and Handel.
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The Early Music Show - Marguerite of Austria
Catherine Bott tells the unfortunate tale of Princess Marguerite of Austria, ill-fated in love and marriage but who was a pre-eminent patron of the arts.
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The Early Music Show - Mariane von Ziegler
Catherine Bott examines Bach's cantata collaboration with author Mariane von Ziegler - a unique relationship which brought a woman's voice into the male-dominated Lutheran church.
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The Early Music Show - Marie Salle
Catherine Bott explores the life and music associated with Marie Salle, one of the most revolutionary and successful dancers of her age. She acted as a muse to Handel and Rameau.
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The Early Music Show - Mark How the Lark and Linnet Sing
Catherine Bott pays tribute to soprano Tessa Bonner who died in 2008, and considers the contribution that versatile singers like her have made to the early music scene.
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The Early Music Show - Masaaki Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki: Catherine Bott is joined by harpsichordist, organist and conductor Masaaki Suzuki, who has been the musical director of Bach Collegium Japan since 1990.
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The Early Music Show - Melodia
Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about one of the most important surviving Icelandic music manuscripts, Rask 98, which was written around 1660 by an unknown scribe.
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The Early Music Show - Mendelssohn Weekend
Catherine Bott talks to Christoph Wolff about Mendelssohn's love of the music of the Bachs and the significant links between these two families.
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The Early Music Show - Milton's Comus
In John Milton's 400th anniversary year, Catherine Bott travels to Ludlow Castle to explore his masque Comus and the music it has inspired. Includes excerpts from Comus and Milton's sonnet to Lawes..
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The Early Music Show - Monteverdi Book IV
Robert Hollingworth explores Monteverdi's powerful fourth book of madrigals and plays recordings by Concerto Italiano, the Consort of Musicke, I Fagiolini and La Venexiana.
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The Early Music Show - Monteverdi's Fifth Book of Madrigals
Robert Hollingworth explores Monteverdi's Fifth Book of Madrigals. It was a pivotal work in the development of the madrigal and was the first to introduce instrumental parts.
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The Early Music Show - Mouton
Mouton: Catherine Bott and Peter Phillips explore the life and music of Jean Mouton, who became the principal composer at the French court at the start of the 16th century.
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The Early Music Show - Mozart and Metastasio
Catherine Bott focuses on Italian poet, librettist and moralist Pietro Trapassi, or Metastasio, through Mozart's four settings of, or adaptations of his texts, such as Lucio Silla.
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The Early Music Show - Mozart and the Baroque
Lucie Skeaping reflects on Mozart's fascination for the music of the Baroque in his later career, including his transcriptions of Bach's Preludes and Fugues for string quartet.
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The Early Music Show - Mr and Mrs Hasse
Mr and Mrs Hasse: Profile of the German-born composer Hasse, who married mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni. Lucie Skeaping plays a selection of his chamber, vocal and orchestral music.
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The Early Music Show - Music for Ascension Day
Catherine Bott presents a programme of music associated with Ascension Day, which includes works by Dufay, Biber, Rosenmuller and Gibbons.
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The Early Music Show - Music for Holy Saturday
Music for Holy Saturday: Lucie Skeaping presents music written for Holy Saturday, with settings of Lamentations and Tenebrae Responsories by Palestrina, Lobo, Gesualdo and Morales.
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The Early Music Show - Music for Holy Saturday
Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music written for Holy Saturday, including settings of Lamentations and Tenebrae Responsories by Palestrina, Lobo, Gesualdo and Morales.
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The Early Music Show - Music for the Annunciation
1/2. Music for the Annunciation: Catherine Bott presents a programme for Passiontide, featuring music associated with the Feast of the Annunciation. With works by Parsons and Biber.
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The Early Music Show - Music for the Founding Fathers
Lucie Skeaping explores music that was being performed in 18th-century colonial America, from figures such as William Billings and some of the Founding Fathers themselves.
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The Early Music Show - Music from Queen Anne's London
Music from Queen Anne's London: Lucie Skeaping reflects on the thriving musical culture of London at the start of the 18th century.
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The Early Music Show - My Lady Rich
My Lady Rich: Lucie Skeaping talks to singer Emily van Evera about her recent disc dedicated to the Elizabethan noblewoman Penelope Rich. With music by Dowland, Byrd and Holborne.
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The Early Music Show - Naples
Catherine Bott presents a musical profile of the Italian city of Naples, introducing repertoire by Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Pergolesi, Gesualdo and Porpora.
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The Early Music Show - NCEM Young Composers Award 2010
Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the Tallis Scholars at Chester Cathedral, for the Chester Festival, featuring winning compositions of the 2010 NCEM Young Composers Award.
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The Early Music Show - Never the Twain Shall Meet
Never the Twain Shall Meet: Lucie Skeaping surveys the Middle East's influence on early music, visiting medieval dance music, Sephardic song and plainchant.
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The Early Music Show - Nicholas Kraemer
Catherine Bott talks to conductor Nicholas Kraemer, founder and musical director of the Raglan Baroque Players. The programme includes music by Vivaldi, Handel and Rebel.
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The Early Music Show - Nicola Porpora
Lucie Skeaping looks at the life and works of composer and teacher Nicola Porpora, whose early career was overshadowed by the success of Alessandro Scarlatti in his native Naples.
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The Early Music Show - Notre Dame and the Sorbonne
Versailles and Paris Month: Notre Dame and the Sorbonne. Lucie Skeaping visits Notre Dame to learn about medieval composers and their influence on the development of western music.
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The Early Music Show - Ockeghem - A Life in Music
Catherine Bott explores literary and musical tributes to composer Johannes Ockeghem, 'the most original musical mind of the 15th century'.
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The Early Music Show - Opera Profiles
Series celebrating baroque opera, broadcast as part of the Opera on the BBC season
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The Early Music Show - Orlando Gibbons
Lucie Skeaping reflects on one of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's favourite composers, Jacobean prodigy Orlando Gibbons, whose music still inspires a diverse range of musicians.
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The Early Music Show - Ornaments of the French Baroque
Catherine Bott travels to Brussels to explore some exemplary repertoire of the French baroque period with flautist Barthold Kuijken.
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The Early Music Show - Orpheus
Catherine Bott looks at settings of the Orpheus myth, and plays music from works by Stradella, Luigi Rossi, D'India and Alessandro Scarlatti.
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The Early Music Show - Pachelbel's Vespers
Lucie Skeaping talks to the director of ensemble Charivari Agreable, Kah-Ming Ng, about their recent collaboration with the King's Singers in a recording of Pachelbel's Vespers.
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The Early Music Show - Padre Antonio Soler
Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler, who wrote keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works.
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The Early Music Show - Palestrina
Catherine Bott visits the ancient Italian city of Palestrina in the Apennines to learn more about its most famous son, the 16th-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
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The Early Music Show - Paving the way for the Red Priest - Venice Before Vivaldi
Catherine Bott explores the composers and the musical climate of the city of Venice before the birth of Antonio Vivaldi in 1678.
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The Early Music Show - Pepys's Diary
Lucie Skeaping explores the many musical references and anecdotes in Samuel Pepys's famed diary, which he began writing 350 years ago.
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The Early Music Show - Performer Profile: Paolo Pandolfo
Lucie Skeaping talks to viola da gamba virtuoso Paolo Pandolfo and plays music from his celebrated recordings, including music by Abel and some of his own improvisations.
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The Early Music Show - Phantasm Profile
Lucie Skeaping talks to Laurence Dreyfus, founder-director of viol consort Phantasm. With music from their recordings, including works by Jenkins, Lawes and Gibbons.
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The Early Music Show - Philip II and Mary Tudor
Lucie Skeaping presents music from both the courts of Philip II of Spain and Mary Tudor. Though their marriage was unsuccessful, the musical legacy of this union was more fruitful.
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The Early Music Show - Profile: European Union Baroque Orchestra
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the European Union Baroque Orchestra and talks to current musical director Lars Ulrik Mortensen. Music includes Bach's First Suite.
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The Early Music Show - Profile of Hopkinson Smith
Catherine Bott meets celebrated American lutenist Hopkinson Smith and introduces highlights from a concert he gave at the National Centre for Early Music in York.
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The Early Music Show - Purcell Symphony Songs
Catherine Bott with highlights from a concert given by Concordia at London's Wigmore Hall, featuring some of Purcell's rarely performed symphony songs and court odes.
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The Early Music Show - Purcell Weekend - Catches and Glees
Lucie Skeaping visits a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club at the George Inn in Southwark and traces the development of catches and glees in the 17th century.
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The Early Music Show - Purcell Weekend - Purcell Keyboard Suites
Lucie Skeaping presents a selection of Purcell's keyboard suites performed on an English bentisde spinet by BBC New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahan.
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The Early Music Show - Purcell's Organ Music
Lucie Skeaping presents organ music by Purcell and some of his contemporaries, performed by BBC New Generation Artist Mahan Esfahani on the organ of St John's College Chapel, Oxford.
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The Early Music Show - Rachel Podger
Rachel Podger: Lucie Skeaping meets violinist Rachel Podger, who reflects on her highly successful career to date and her relationship with the baroque violin.
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The Early Music Show - Renaissance Dance Music
Lucie Skeaping is joined by dance historian Barbara Segal to discuss the finer points of Renaissance Terpsichore.
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The Early Music Show - Renaissance Polyphony
Lucie Skeaping is joined by Peter Phillips and the Tallis Scholars to explore some of the defining qualities and the ethos of Renaissance polyphony.
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The Early Music Show - Renaissance Swansongs
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given by Stile Antico at the 2009 York Early Music Festival. Including music by Gombert, Alonso Lobo and John Sheppard.
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The Early Music Show - Review of the Year 2010
Catherine Bott and Lucie Skeaping review 2010's Early Music Shows, presenting previously unheard recordings from some of the year's early music festivals and discussing various musical anniversaries
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The Early Music Show - Rites of Remembrance
Lucie Skeaping with highlights of a concert from the 2010 Brighton Early Music Festival by soprano Emma Kirkby, the International Baroque Players and the BREMF Consort of Voices.
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The Early Music Show - Robert Carver profile
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 16th century Scottish composer Robert Carver, featuring music from his mass settings and his remarkable 19-part motet O bone Jesu.
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The Early Music Show - Rose Consort of Viols at the 2009 York Early Music Festival
Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a programme of English consort music performed by the Rose Consort of Viols at the 2009 York Early Music Festival.
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The Early Music Show - Sacred Music: Tallis and Byrd in London
Sacred Music: Tallis and Byrd in London. Harry Christophers talks to Catherine Bott about Tallis and Byrd's lives in London and the development of the English choral tradition.
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The Early Music Show - Scarlatti and Corelli: Music for a Bourbon
Catherine Bott explores the stories surrounding the music and entertainments put on for the occasion of Philip V of Spain's visit to Naples in 1702.
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The Early Music Show - Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Lucie Skeaping tours round the most famous seat of early music training in the world, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, to find out about its work, its aims and its legacy.
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The Early Music Show - Schutz in Venice and Dresden
Lucie Skeaping explores the years Heinrich Schutz spent in Venice and Dresden. Music includes some of his earliest work and a set of madrigals.
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The Early Music Show - Settings of Poets and Texts
Catherine Bott is joined by author Jonathan Keates to discuss the poets and texts Purcell set, showing the great range and versatility in his use of words.
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The Early Music Show - Shakespeare and Music in the Time of Henry Purcell
Shakespeare and Music in the Time of Henry Purcell: Actor Simon Russell Beale explores the musical settings of Shakespeare's plays by Purcell and his contemporaries.
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The Early Music Show - Sonnerie at 2009 Lufthansa Festival
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert given by Sonnerie, with countertenor Robin Blaze, at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music.
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The Early Music Show - Stabat Mater
2/2. Stabat Mater: Catherine Bott presents excerpts from settings of the Stabat mater dolorosa by Josquin Desprez, Pergolesi and Scarlatti.
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The Early Music Show - Stradivarius
Lucie Skeaping travels to Cremona in Italy to explore the place where the Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari families gave birth to a new instrument - the violin.
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The Early Music Show - Take the Risk
Catherine Bott introduces highlights and talks to the curator of the Southbank's Centre's Take the Risk weekend, which features concerts exploring early music improvisation
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The Early Music Show - The Birth of Opera
Catherine Bott explores the origins of opera, examining the genre from its earliest days in the courts of Florence and Rome
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The Early Music Show - The Caccini Sisters
Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini, the two musical daughters of renowned singer and composer Giulio Caccini.
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The Early Music Show - The City of Salzburg
Lucie Skeaping discusses some of the composers who lived and worked in Salzburg before Mozart's time, including Finck, Hofhaimer, Stadlmayr, Biber, Muffat and Michael Haydn.
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The Early Music Show - The Court of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Court of Mary, Queen of Scots: David McGuinness visits Stirling Castle and the Palace of Holyrood House to learn about music which may have been performed during Mary's reign.
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The Early Music Show - The Death of Henri IV
Catherine Bott explores the life of King Henri IV of France, known as the Green Gallant, as well as the music which accompanied both his life and his death.
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The Early Music Show - The Development of the Parisian Chanson
Versailles and Paris Month: The Development of the Parisian Chanson. Catherine Bott looks at the rise of the Parisian chanson, a very popular form of 15th-century French song.
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The Early Music Show - The Duke of Chandos
Catherine Bott charts the rise and fall of one-time patron of Handel, James Brydges, who amassed great wealth and a palatial mansion with a 30-piece orchestra, only to lose it.
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The Early Music Show - The Early Music Show
Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner.
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The Early Music Show - The Elizabethan Stage Jig
Lucie Skeaping explores the often forgotten world of the Elizabethan stage jig - a popular form of bawdy musical comedy from the 16th and 17th century.
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The Early Music Show - The Forebears of Palestrina
Catherine Bott presents a concert given by the BBC Singers under Peter Phillips, including music by Palestrina and composers who may have influenced him.
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The Early Music Show - The Great Schism
Catherine Bott explores the music of the Great Schism of Western Christianity, which divided the Catholic Church between 1378 and 1417.
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The Early Music Show - The Huelgas Ensemble at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents the Huelgas Ensemble under Paul van Nevel performing a concert of chorales by Bach and Michael Praetorius at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival.
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The Early Music Show - The King's Singers
To celebrate their 40th anniversary, Robert Hollingworth talks to 3 past and present members of the King's Singers about their extensive 16th and 17th century repertoire.
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The Early Music Show - The Mandolin
Lucie Skeaping talks to mandolin player Alison Stephens, who traces the instrument's journey through 400 years. Music includes works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Leone.
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The Early Music Show - The Muiderkring
Catherine Bott explores the Muiderkring, a group of the leading figures of cultural life in the Netherlands in the 17th century, who supposedly met at a castle near Amsterdam.
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The Early Music Show - The Munich Court
The Munich Court: Catherine Bott presents music with connections to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria. Featured composers include Forqueray, Pez and Rupert Ignaz Mayr.
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The Early Music Show - The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Catherine Bott is joined by the chief executive of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightement Stephen Carpenter to explore the orchestra's history and to hear some of its recordings.
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The Early Music Show - The Palace of Versailles
Versailles. Lucie Skeaping and Catherine Bott visit the Palace of Versailles, which employed some of the most important musicians in Europe, including Couperin, Lully and Campra.
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The Early Music Show - The Role of the Continuo
Catherine Bott talks to Gary Cooper about the role of the continuo, from its early beginnings around the turn of the 17th century, up to vocal and instrumental music by Bach.
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The Early Music Show - The Sixteen: Choral Pilgrimage 2008
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert by The Sixteen, for their annual Choral Pilgrimage. With works by Christopher Parsons, Robert White and Christopher Tye.
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The Early Music Show - The Story of Ann Cargill
Lucie Skeaping visits the Scilly Isles to trace the life of the notorious actress and singer, Ann Cargill, who drowned in a dramatic shipwreck there in 1784.
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The Early Music Show - The Versailles Centre for Baroque Music
Versailles and Paris Month: The Versailles Centre for Baroque Music. Paris and Versailles Month begins with an exploration of France's continuing rediscovery of its baroque music.
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The Early Music Show - The Vivaldi Revival
Using landmark recordings, Lucie Skeaping charts the rediscovery of Vivaldi in the late 19th century. His music had lain in virtual obscurity for over 150 years.
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The Early Music Show - The York Early Music Festival 2007
Coverage of the 30th York Early Music Festival, from the National Centre for Early Music
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The Early Music Show - Thomas Arne
Lucie Skeaping looks at the life and music of one of England's most misunderstood composers - Thomas Arne. The composer of Rule Britannia, he also wrote 100 stage works.
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The Early Music Show - Thomas Campion
Catherine Bott reflects on the life and work of Thomas Campion, a physician in Elizabethan times, who was celebrated for both his poetry and his many songs.
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The Early Music Show - Thomas Ravenscroft - Harmony to please, varietie to delight
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Thomas Ravenscroft - the 17th-century English composer who aimed to produce 'harmony to please, and varietie to delight'.
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The Early Music Show - Ton Koopman
Lucie Skeaping presents an organ concert from Stift Zwettl Abbey in Lower Austria. With Ton Koopman in solo works by Bach and Pablo Bruna, plus two concertos by Handel and Haydn.
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The Early Music Show - Tonos
Catherine Bott introduces a concert of 'tonos' - tunes or melodies - from Spain, performed by mezzo-soprano Marta Infante and baroque harpist Manuel Vilas.
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The Early Music Show - Trio Mediaeval
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert of Norwegian folk music given a distinctive spin by Trio Mediaeval.
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The Early Music Show - Unquiet Thoughts: Melancholic Music of Elizabethan England
Melancholic music from Elizabethan England, focusing on the songs of John Dowland, performed at this year's Aldeburgh Festival by Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny.
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The Early Music Show - Utrecht Early Music Festival 2008
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2008. The theme is the Golden Age: Rensaissance Polyphony of the Iberian Peninsula
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The Early Music Show - Utrecht Festival of Early Music 2007
Utrecht Festival of Early Music 2007: Andrew Gourlay presents a programme of music recorded at the Jacobikerk in Utrecht, the Netherlands, featuring the Holland Baroque Society.
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The Early Music Show - Valentina Varriale
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert from the city of Palestrina, by soprano Valentina Varriale with Capella della Pieta de Turchini. Music includes Pergolesi and Leo.
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The Early Music Show - Valentine's Music
Lucie Skeaping presents a Valentine's Day series, featuring music exploring the complexities of love
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The Early Music Show - Venanzio Rauzzini
Catherine Bott visits Bath to mark the bicentenary of the death of one of its most famous adopted sons - celebrated 18th-century singer, teacher and composer, Venanzio Rauzzini.
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The Early Music Show - Versailles and Paris Month: A Musical Day in the Life of Louis XIV
Lucie Skeaping recreates a possible day in the life of the French king Louis XIV, in which music was ever-present.
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The Early Music Show - Viktoria Mullova Interview
Lucie Skeaping interviews virtuoso violinist Viktoria Mullova about her reinvigorated passion for Bach's solo sonatas and partitas.
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The Early Music Show - Viols and Voices
Catherine Bott is joined by David Skinner and Bill Hunt to discuss the slightly controversial issue of combining voices with viols in an ecclesiastical setting.
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The Early Music Show - Vivaldi Concertos
Catherine Bott interviews Adrian Chandler about some of Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos, and his recordings with the ensemble La Serenissima.
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The Early Music Show - What is Baroque?
Catherine Bott braves the traffic of London EC4 armed with her trusty record collection to ponder the question, what is Baroque?
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The Early Music Show - William Byrd: Loyal Servant of the Crown and Devout Catholic
William Byrd - Loyal Servant of the Crown and Devout Catholic: Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert featuring Stile Antico and the Rose Consort of Viols.
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The Early Music Show - Written in Their Spare Time
Written in Their Spare Time: Lucie Skeaping examines music composed by the musicians of St Mark's in the 16th and 17th centuries to be performed outside the church.
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The Early Music Show - York Early Music Festival
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert from the York Early Music Festival performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford. With works by Purcell, Matthew Locke and Couperin.
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The Early Music Show - York Early Music Festival 2008
Lucie Skeaping presents music from the 2008 York Early Music Festival
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The Early Music Show - York Early Music Festival 2010
Catherine Bott focuses on the 2010 York Early Music Festival in a special show from the National Centre for Early Music. Artists include I Fagiolini and soprano Barbara Schlick.
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The Early Music Show - York Early Music Festival 2010: Ensemble Lucidarium
Catherine Bott presents music for a Jewish wedding performed by Ensemble Lucidarium from the 2010 York Early Music Festival.
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The Early Music Show - York Early Music Festival 2010: London Baroque
Catherine Bott introduces a concert from the 2010 York Early Music Festival given by the trio, London Baroque of 18th Century French music.
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