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The Early Music Show

Series	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
EMS		20040103		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the New York-based ensemble Rebel at the 2003 Boston Early Music Festival. The concert focuses on the music of Telemann, and in particular those works which are infused with the influence of Polish folk elements. With interviews from the group's founders Karen Marie Marmer and Jörg-Michael Schwarz. Telemann: Sonata Polonese à 3 in A, TWV42A8 Telemann: Sonata Discortato à 4 in A, TWV43A7 Telemann: Sonata Polonois à 4 in G, TWV43G7 Telemann: Sonata Polonois à 4 in B flat, TWV43B3 Telemann: Suite in E flat, TWV55Es2 Rebel Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer (violins) Matthias Maute (traverso, recorder and flute pastorelle) Risa Browder (viola) John Moran (cello) Anne Trout (double bass) Dongsok Shin (harpsichord).
		20080823		Edinburgh International Festival 2008 1/2. Chant Wars Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert of Gregorian chant, performed by medieval music ensembles Sequentia and Dialogos. The concert was recorded at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2008 and it explores the various styles of chant found across Europe in medieval times.
EMS		20040131		Catherine Bott introduces motets and chansons by the 15th Century French composer, singer and poet Antoine Busnoys. He was one of the most celebrated musicians of the age, who is claimed as having started the tradition of setting the Mass using the popular tune L'homme arme. In this specially recorded sequence, the Orlando Consort feature some of his Latin motets with double text and a sequence of his French rondeaux and virelai.
EMS		20040208		Andrew Manze introduces motets and madrigals by the 16th Century Flemish composer Philippe de Monte. Overshadowed in recent times by his contemporaries Lassus and Palestrina, De Monte was their equal during his lifetime, especially as a writer of madrigals. This sequence includes a number of specialy made recordings in which Bo Holten conducts the BBC Singers. The musical connection between De Monte and William Byrd is also revealed in recordings from The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.
EMS		20040221		The Benda Family Andrew Manze delves into the musical world of the Benda family, three members of which, in particular, still hold a valuable place in today's repertoire. Active in the aristocratic courts of eighteenth century Prussia, these Bohemian brothers were perhaps best known for their flute works, all of which were commissioned by their flautist patron, Frederick the Great. In today's programme, however, Andrew seeks to prove that there's more to the Bendas than flutes! Frantisek Benda - Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A minor Simon Standage (violin) Jane Coe (cello) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Frantisek Benda - Sonata for flute, cello and harpsichord Andreas Kröper (flute) Thomas Fritzsch (cello) Bernhard Gillitzer (harpsichord) Jan Jiri Benda - 'Grave' from Concerto for violin and strings in G major (version for cello and strings) Christian Benda (cello and director) Prague Chamber Orchestra Jiri Antonin Benda - Concerto for harpsichord in G major Josef Hála (harpsichord) Ars Redeviva Ensemble.
EMS		20040228		Ensemble Clement Janequin Catherine Bott introduces music from a concert given in Lucerne by the French group Ensemble Clement Janequin. Meanwhile, Lucie Skeaping explores one of the musical treasures contained in the Augsburg Art Cabinet, which, together with its contents, was said to reflect the entire known world.
EMS		20040229		The English Concert: Andrew Manze presents a concert from St George's, Bristol, given by his own group the English Concert. Featuring music by Muffat and Schmelzer.
EMS		20040306		Catherine Bott introduces a programme of music recorded at the National Centre for Early Music in York, performed by Concordia, interspersing instrumental pieces from the inner circle of court musicians to Charles I and II with Symphony Songs by Henry Purcell.
EMS		20040307		Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert recorded at the Regensburg Festival of Early Music, in which the US-based Terra Nova Ensemble perform music from 14th Century Spain. Composers such as Alfonso Mudarra, Luis Milan and Juan del Encina nestle with traditional and anonymous songs from the Iberian peninsula, which display an obvious flavour of the Moorish occupation.
EMS		20040313		Scotia Crescat Music from the Scottish Enlightenment by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik. Lucie Skeaping talks to Ian McFarlane about this remarkable polymath and we hear three of his cantatas performed by Sonnerie with Mhairie Lawson and Lorna Anderson.
EMS		20040314		Concerto Caledonia The Early Music Show today comes from Scotland, live and interactive, maybe even hyperactive, with Concerto Caledonia performing music from 18th century Scotland and a few pieces that you might not expect from a period instrument ensemble. Catherine Bott will also be chatting to the group, so email your questions now.
EMS	Telemann And The Recorder	20040320		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the virtuoso recorder player Dan Laurin with the outstanding young Polish ensemble, Arte dei Suonotori. Telemann's famous Suite in a minor will be preceded by concertos for recorder and strings by Telemann and Vivaldi, and the young British recorder player Emma Murphy will look at the role of the recorder in the Baroque ensemble.
EMS		20040321		Catherine Bott talks to harpsichordist, flautist and conductor, Nicholas McGegan about his career in Baroque Music. As musical director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the International Handel Festival, to name but two, Nicholas McGegan has carved a unique niche in the field of historically-informed performance, and has well over 70 recordings to his name. The music in today's programme comes from just a handful of those recordings, and includes repertoire by Rameau, Scarlatti, Telemann, Bach and Arne, as well as his award-winning première recording of Handel's opera, Susanna.
EMS		20040328		Lawrence Cummings and Adrian Butterfield Lucie Skeaping presents a Live Early Music Show with chat and music from harpsichordist Laurence Cummings and violinist Adrian Butterfield, exploring the musical importance of the violin sonatas of C P E Bach.
EMS		20040410		In the first of two programmes marking the tercentenary of the death of Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Catherine Bott chooses a selection of music recorded in February from all over Europe. As part of the European Broadcasting Union's special Charpentier Day, the repertoire includes music by the great man himself, and by other composers who were active during the reign of Louis XIV of France.
EMS		20040411		Musicians of the King's Chamber The second of two programmes commemorating the 300th anniversary of the death of Charpentier, today focussing on some of Charpentier's contemporaries. Lucie Skeaping explores music by a generation of baroque composers employed by Louis XIV at Versailles as musicians of the King's Chamber, including Michel de La Barre, Robert de Visée, Jean-Henri D'Anglebert and Marin Marais.
EMS		20040417		Cristofori's Florentine Piano Around 1700 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Keeper of Instruments for the Medici family in Florence, had a brilliant idea - take a harpsichord, but instead of plucking the strings, hit them with a hammer instead. Catherine Bott joins instrument-maker Denzil Wraight who has recreated one of Cristofi's early pianos, and fortepianist Ella Sevskaya who has recorded a recital on it, especially for the programme.
EMS		20040424		Today's Early Music Show comes live from St George's in Belfast, as part of the BBC's Music Live festival. The BBC Singers are joined by conductor Peter Phillips to perform music from renaissance England and Italy. BBC Singers Peter Phillips (director) Tallis....Loquebantur variis linguis Tallis....Suscipe quaeso Byrd....Quomodo cantabimus de Monte....Super flumina Lassus....Te spectant Reginalde Poli Byrd....Tristitia et anxietas Lassus....Tui sunt caeli.
EMS		20040425		Early Music in Ireland: Continuing the 'BBC Music Live' weekend in Belfast, Lucie Skeaping takes a look at music in Ireland from Medieval times onwards.
EMS		20040501		Handel's London Catherine Bott talks to Handel expert Simon Heighes about Handel's impact on musical life in London at the beginning of the 18th Century, as they consider some of Handel's contemporaries including Croft and Eccles. Laurence Cummings also provides an insight into Handel improvising at home in London's Brook Street.
EMS		20040509		Lucie Skeaping explores the background behind one of the Baroque's most popular pieces - Johann Pachelbel's four minute Canon in D. Who was Pachelbel? What else did he compose? And were he a wedding guest today, could he put his hand on his heart, point to the organist and say "I wrote that!"?
EMS		20040516		Follow the Lieder From its emergence in the 14th Century through the Reformation, Lucie Skeaping studies the early stages of the German Lied, and some of the composers who helped to develop this important genre. With music by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Adam vond Fulda, Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl. Follow the Lieder From its emergence in the 14th Century through the Reformation, Lucie Skeaping studies the early stages of the German Lied, and some of the composers who helped to develop this important genre. With music by Oswald von Wolkenstein, Adam vond Fulda, Heinrich Isaac and Ludwig Senfl.
EMS		20040522		Andrew Manze presents a concert given by the premiere Danish Ensemble, Concerto Copenhagen. This all-Bach programme was recorded in Copenhagen's Garrison Church, and is directed by the group's founder, Lars-Ulrik Mortensen. Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No 42, BWV 42 Concerto Copenhagen Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director) Bach: Oboe d'amore concerto in A, BWV 1055 Frank de Bruine (oboe) Bach: Triple concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord, BWV 1044 Maria Bania (flute) Peter Spissky (violin) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord and director) Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata No 209.
EMS		20040523		Catherine Bott introduces this live and onteractive Early Music Show, and asks you to send in requests for your favouorite madrigal. You can make your request right up to the last minute, by e-mailing the production team at the usual address, or: Phone: The Radio 3 Audience Line 08700 100300 [national rates] Or write in to: The Early Music Show Room 1115 New Broadcasting House Oxford Road Manchester M60 1SJ.
EMS		20040529		Double Dutch - The Age of the Netherlanders By the early 16th Century, virtually every major musical centre in Europe was run by a musician from the Low Countries. In the first of the Early music Show's two Double Dutch programmes this weekend, Lucie Skeaping explores the incredible and unexplained golden age of Netherlanders. Music includes examples by such composers as Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem and Josquin. Jacques Maassen, director of the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort also guides us through the age-old tradition of carillon playing in the Low Countries.
EMS		20040530		Double Dutch: The Age of the Netherlanders In the second of this weekend's programmes devoted to the music of The Low Countries, Lucie Skeaping explores the continuing tradition of Dutch and Flemish musical excellence through the late 16th and early 17th Centuries. With music from Tielman Susato, Orlando de Lassus, Philippe de Monte and the great organ master Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck. Dr Haspels, of Utrecht's Speelklok Museum also takes us on a journey through the tradition of Dutch street and barrel organs.
EMS		20040606		Catherine Bott introduces motets and chansons by the 15th Century French composer, singer and poet Antoine Busnoys. He was one of the most celebrated musicians of the age, who is claimed to have started the tradition of setting the Mass using the popular tune L'homme arme. In this specially recorded sequence, the Orlando Consort feature some of his Latin motets with double text and a sequence of his French rondeaux and virelai.
EMS	Lufthansa Festival	20040612		Catherine Bott introduces a concert of French Baroque music given in London's Wallace Collection as part of this year's Lufthansa Festival. Meanwhile, Lucie Skeaping is in the collection's West Gallery to talk to the gallery's curator Jo Hedley about French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau's painting The Music Party. Paul Agnew (tenor) Beatrice Martin (harpsichord/organ) Anne-Marie Lasla (viol).
EMS		20040613		Lufthansa Festival Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music earlier this month, given by the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin directed by Georg Kallweit.
EMS	The Wallace Collection	20040619		Harpsichordist Mitzi Meyerson performs works by Couperin, d'Anglebert and Forqueray in the beautiful surroundings of The Wallace Collection's main gallery. Lucie Skeaping introduces this concert of music from the golden years of Versailles, and talks to curator Jo Headley about one of the paintings in the collection: Watteau's Harlequin and Columbine.
EMS	Red Priest	20040620		Lucie Skeaping is joined live in the Manchester studio by acclaimed early music group Red Priest. Including music from the group's inimitable new version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
EMS		20040627		Medea Lucie Skeaping studies the story of Medea in all its horrific glory, and illustrates the tale with musical examples from Baroque and Classical opera, cantata and melodrama. Jiri Antonin Benda: Medea (extract) Medea....Hertha Schell Prague Chamber Orchestra Christian Benda (conductor) Clérambault: Médée (extract) Julianne Baird (soprano) American Baroque Stephen Schultz (director) Caldara: Medea in Corinto Gérard Lesne (countertenor) Il Seminario musicale Charpentier: Medea Acts IV and V (extracts) Medea....Lorraine Hunt Jason....Mark Padmore Creusa....Monique Zanetti Cléone....Isabelle Desrochers.
EMS		20040703		Biber and the forgotten virtuosi Catherine Bott presents a live edition from the National Centre for Early Music, featuring the ensemble Ricordo with members of Het Caecilia Concert. The programmes celebrates the 300th anniversary of the death of the violin virtuoso and composer Heinrich Biber, with music by Biber and his contemporaries. Johan Schmelzer: La Carolietta Johann Jacob Froberger: Fantasia for harpsichord, FbWV 205 Buonaventura Viviani: Sonata in A minor for violin Schmelzer: Sonata for Violin and dulcian Biber: Passacaglia in C minor for lute Biber: Sonata No 3 in F for violin Matthias Weckmann: Sonata 2 in four parts.
EMS		20040710		In today's programme Lucie Skeaping charts the development of the forte piano-piano during Beethoven's life-time - a period when the instrument went through some of its biggest changes. What did the "piano" mean to the composer between 1770 and 1827?
EMS		20040716		Catherine Bott is joined today by fellow soprano Emma Kirkby to explore the intimate and expressive repertoire of the English lute song, which reached its peak in the first half of the seventeenth century with composers like Dowland, Ferrabosco and the Lawes brothers, Henry and William. Emma Kirkby (soprano) With Jacob Lindberg (lute) Alfonso Ferrabosco: So, so leave off this last lamenting kiss; Gentle Knights Robert Johnson: As I walked forth John Dowland: Go crystal tears; Lend your ears to my sorrow; Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace? Dowland: Prelude and Fantasia for lute Robert Jones: Ite, caldi sospiri Henry Lawes: Tavola: Or you or I Nature did wrong: Slide soft, you silver floods William Lawes: Why so pale and wan, fond lover Daniel Bachelor: Prelude - La Jeune Fillette for lute Alfonso Bales: Cloris sigh'd, and sang, and wept George Jeffreys: Have pity, grief, I cannot pay John Hilton: Hymne to God the Father.
EMS		20040717		Catherine Bott is joined today by fellow soprano Emma Kirkby to explore the intimate and expressive repertoire of the English lute song, which reached its peak in the first half of the seventeenth century with composers like Dowland, Ferrabosco and the Lawes brothers, Henry and William. Emma Kirkby (soprano) With Jacob Lindberg (lute) Alfonso Ferrabosco: So, so leave off this last lamenting kiss; Gentle Knights Robert Johnson: As I walked forth John Dowland: Go crystal tears; Lend your ears to my sorrow; Shall I sue, shall I seek for grace? Dowland: Prelude and Fantasia for lute Robert Jones: Ite, caldi sospiri Henry Lawes: Tavola: Or you or I Nature did wrong: Slide soft, you silver floods William Lawes: Why so pale and wan, fond lover Daniel Bachelor: Prelude - La Jeune Fillette for lute Alfonso Bales: Cloris sigh'd, and sang, and wept George Jeffreys: Have pity, grief, I cannot pay John Hilton: Hymne to God the Father.
EMS		20040718		Lucie Skeaping's guest on today's live programme is the acclaimed recorder player Pamela Thorby, who talks about life in the Palladian Ensemble and as a solo artist, with music from her new CD.
EMS		20040724		The Madrigal Comedy At the end of the 16th century, the Madrigal Comedy became the most advanced form of musical theatre. These madrigals, like opera that was to follow, were available to those few rich or grand enough to afford this kind of entertainment. Lucie Skeaping presents a programme which explores the Madrigal Comedies written by composers such as Vecchi and Banchieri, performed by Ensemble Clement Janequin.
EMS		20040725		Sacro-Profanum: Music for the altar and for the table Catherine Bott presents a concert recorded earlier this month at the York Early Music Festival, given by the Swiss-based Ensemble 415 (directed by Chiara Banchieri). The programme celebrates the tercentenary of the death of Heinrich Biber with a sequence of sacred and secular pieces composed for Archbishop Gandolph in Salzburg, by Biber and his contemporaries Schmelzer and Johann Meder.
EMS		20040807		Lucy Skeaping presents a concert recorded in York Minster during this summer's York Early Music Festival. The Dufay Collective perform dansas and estampies from the 13th-century troubadour tradition.
EMS		20040808		Catherine Bott joins the pilgrims in northwest Spain as she visits the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. Spanish hymns and cantigas form the musical basis of the programme as we travel the way of St James.
EMS	Charivari Agréable	20040815		Andrew Manze presents a live and interactive programme with performances from the established early music ensemble Charivari Agréable. They will perform music marking the end of the Tudor period and the beginning of the Jacobean, by composers such as Thomas Morley, William Byrd and Richard Allison.
EMS		20040822		Andrew Manze introduces motets and madrigals by the 16th Century Flemish composer Philippe de Monte. Overshadowed in recent times by his contemporaries Lassus and Palestrina, De Monte was their equal during his lifetime, especially as a writer of madrigals. This sequence includes a number of specially made recordings in which Bo Holten conducts the BBC Singers. The musical connection between De Monte and William Byrd is also revealed in recordings from The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.
EMS		20040828		Andreas Scholl From humble beginnings in his father's greengrocer's store near Wiesbaden, Andreas Scholl has become one of the most successful musicians of his generation. Blessed with a unique clarity of tone and an undeniable warmth, Scholl certainly deserves the accolades he has earned as one of the best countertenors on the early music circuit. Catherine Bott looks at his extraordinary career and chooses music from his recordings, including performances of lutesongs by John Dowland and Thomas Campion, as recorded at this year's Bath International Festival.
EMS		20040905		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert from York Minster as part of The Sixteen's annual choral pilgrimage. This year, the choir's director Harry Christophers has chosen a programme of Portuguese and Italian music, including Lotti's divine Crucifixus and Scarlatti's Stabat Mater.
EMS		20040912		In this month's live and interactive Early Music Show, Catherine Bott's guest is baroque violinist Monica Huggett.
EMS		20040918		Catherine Bott presents the Italian ensemble Accordone with the remarkable singer Marco Beasley performing Frotolle from 16th-century Italy and instrumental dances of the period.
EMS		20040919		Early Music in Ireland Lucie Skeaping explores music in Ireland from medieval times onwards.
EMS		20040925		Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo Emilio de' Cavalieri's sacred opera the Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, was the first ever to be published, and is the earliest opera for which all the music survives. Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a performance recorded at the Utrecht Early Music Festival last month, featuring the ensemble L'Arpeggiata, directed by Christina Pluhar.
EMS		20040926		Catherine Bott and friends perform a seductive selection of Spanish pieces from Ferdinand and Isabella's own musical collection, The Cancionas por los Reyes'.
EMS	Brighton Early Music Festival 1	20041003		Catherine Bott introduces highlights from the first of two concerts recorded at this year's Brighton Early Music Festival including Consort Songs by William Byrd performed by Emma Kirkby and Fretwork. The programme also looks back on the life and influence of the great Elizabeth courtier and poet, Sir Philip Sidney.
EMS		20041009		The Empress of Magnificent Taste and Pleasure Teresa Cornelys arrived penniless in England in the autumn of 1759. Yet, little more than a year later, she was an international Opera star, and owned London's most successful entertainment business. Judith Summers, author of a biography of this incredible woman, talks to Lucie Skeaping about Teresa, who had a rumoured love affair with Gluck and was mother to Casanova's child. Featuring music by Gluck, Handel, Thomas Arne and JC Bach.
EMS		20041010		Lucie Skeaping presents the second of two programmes from this year's Brighton Early Music Festival. Musica Secreta perform erotic madrigals from Monteverdi's 4th book, which were miraculously transformed into sacred pieces by the substitution of Latin texts, for performances by nuns. These will be combined with music actually composed by and for nuns of Lombardy including the recently discovered music of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.
EMS		20041016		Black Mozart On Christmas Day 1739 in Guadeloupe, a child was born to a rich colonist and his negress slave mistress. This child was Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint George, who rose through Eighteenth-century aristocratic circles to become one of the most fascinating and respected figures in the Paris musical scene. Lucie Skeaping looks at some of the music written by this mixed-race misfit, who came to become one of the most remarkable figures in the Age of Enlightenment.
EMS		20041017		Biber's Rosary Sonatas Andrew Manze introduces a selection from Biber's unique collection of fifteen violin sonatas. He explores the different ways in which they can be realised, and considers the symbolism behind the music. Biber: Sonata No 1 - The Annunciation Sonata No 4 - The Presentation in the Temple Andrew Manze (violin) Richard Eggar (organ) Sonata No 6 - The Agony in the Garden Sonata No 9 - The Carrying of the Cross Sonata No 10 - The Crucifixion Monica Huggett (violin) Emilia Benjamin (viola da gamba) Matthew Halls (organ) Richard Sweeney (theorbo) Sonata No 11 - The Resurrection Pavlo Besnoziuk (violin) David Roblou(organ) Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Richard Tunnicliffe (violone).
EMS		20041023		A Lute Evening at the Orangerie Andrew Manze introduces a concert of German and Spanish lute and guitar music given in the Orangerie of Schwetzinger Castle, Germany by Xavier Diaz-Latorre (theorbo and baroque guitar) and Pedro Estevan (percussion).
EMS		20041024		Barthold Kuijken Plays CPE Bach Barthold Kuijken, famous for his dedication to the rediscovery of the baroque flute, plays sonatas by CPE Bach with harpsichordist Ewald Demeyere.
EMS		20041030		Andrew Manze presents a performer portrait of David Munrow, of one of the most influential early music pioneers this country has ever seen.
EMS		20041106		In connection with last night's festivities, Catherine Bott and Andrew Carwood of the Cardinall's Musick today take the Early Music Show back to 1605 and look at the music which was written about the infamous plot of 1605. Featuring a short concert programme from the Cardinall's Musick from the Early Music Network Showcase in Warwick.
EMS	Beggars, Ballads And A Brouhaha!!	20041107		Lucie Skeaping looks at the inspiration, background and impact of John Gay's celebrated Beggar's Opera which appeared in London in 1728 as a reaction to the excesses and pretensions of fashionable Italian opera. Far from the exulted realms of the ancient heroes and the classical gods, the opera celebrates the worst of 18th century London street life, featuring beggars, cut-throats, thieves and prostitutes singing the popular ballads of the day.
EMS		20041113		Live From the Greenwich International Festival of Early Music The Early Music Show comes live from our stand amidst the glorious cacophony of Greenwich International Festival of Early Music in the Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Instrument makers and performers will be talking to Lucie Skeaping and demonstrating their wares, from viols to bagpipes.
EMS		20041114		Les Haulz et les Bas Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of 13th Century music for shawms and sackbuts recorded at Chethams School of Music in Manchester by Germany-based group, Les Haulz et les Bas.
EMS		20041120		Philippe de Vitry was a groundbreaking and innovative musician of his time. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at his works in the light of a new opera which uses his music.
EMS		20041121		In a special live and interactive edition, the much acclaimed ensemble London Baroque join Catherine Bott in the studio for performance and chat.
EMS		20041127		Catherine Bott presents the first of two programs about Boccherini's life and work in Madrid, and the secret behind all those cello quintets!.
EMS		20041128		Catherine Bott presents the second of two programs about Boccherini's sojourn in Madrid, and his unexpected connection with the King of Prussia.
EMS		20041204		The Burning Bush Traditional Jewish music presented and performed by Lucie Skeaping with her band The Burning Bush. Music from the Judeo-Spanish tradition rubs shoulders with Eastern European Klesmer in this lively concert from The Snape Maltings in Suffolk.
EMS		20041211		Catherine Bott explores eighteenth century Lisbon, the city that welcomed Domenico Scarlatti to its Royal Palace in 1719. King Joao V of Portugal had poached Scarlatti from the comfort and security of Rome to bring a little glamour and instruction to his court. For Scarlatti, this was an opportunity not to be missed, and one that diverted the course of his entire career. It was in Lisbon that Scarlatti began to compose his keyboard sonatas - 555 of them in total - many of which are dedicated to, or inspired by, the Princess Maria Barbara.
EMS		20041212		My Favourite Scarlatti! In a Live and Interactive show from Studio 3 in Manchester, Catherine Bott introduces the world to the joys of 'Scar-lotto' and offers listeners the opportunity to request a performance of their favourite piece of music by one of the Scarlatti Dynasty.
EMS	Orfeo And Arianna	20041218		Andrew Manze examines Claudio Monteverdi's first two Operas, which defined the genre, and ensured its survival. The programme also visits a performance of I Fagiolini's production, "The Full Monteverdi".
EMS		20041225		Lucie Skeaping presents a festive concert from London's Wigmore Hall. Florilegium with soprano Lorna Anderson perform a range of Baroque music from Germany and Italy, including Handel's Gloria, Vivaldi's Concerto for flute and organ, RV 541, and Scarlatti's cantata O di Betlemme altera poverta.
EMS	Food And Drink	20041226		Music for the jaded Boxing Day palate. Catherine Bott presents a programme of feasting and excess, from the monks of Carmina Burana, who only seemed to have had two things on their minds to George Philipp Telemann's rather more refined Musique de Table, and perhaps some coffee to finish.
EMS	Mad Music	20050102		Lucie Skeaping explores the mad songs of English composers of the 16th and 17th Centuries, including Byrd's song about the aged dame who falls down at the top of a hill, skulls rolling down the hillside all around and Dowland's "hellish jarring sounds which banish friendly sleep.".
EMS		20050109		Andrew Manze is joined live in Manchester by the members of The Het Caecilia Concert, one of the most intriguing and exciting young ensembles on the current Early Music scene.
EMS		20050122		Catherine Bott visits the bustling city of Lisbon to delve into the wealth of music written in Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries. With music by Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, and Filipe de Magalhaes.
EMS		20050123		Catherine Bott presents the second of her two programmes devoted to the early music of Portugal. With music by the great keyboard master Carlos de Seixas, and contemporaries such as Antonio Teixeira and Joao de Sousa Carvalho, this programme highlights the patronage of the Braganca family in the lead-up to the great earthquake of 1755.
EMS		20050129		Andrew Manze introduces a concert he gave with the European Union Baroque Orchestra as part of the Spitalfields Festival in December.
EMS		20050130		Lucie Skeaping introduces a live and interactive request programme to celebrate the generally agreed 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis.
EMS		20050205		Rameau and the Harpsichord: Lucie Skeaping looks at the background to some of the greatest keyboard music from 18th-century France - Jean-Phillipe Rameau's Pieces de Clavecin.
EMS		20050206		Another chance to hear a concert from last year's Lufthansa Festival given by Le Poeme Harmonique, which includes traditional carnival songs and commedia from Italy in the 17th century. Most of the works in the concert are attributed to a certain 'Il Fasolo' - 'The Bean' - whose identity remains shrouded in mystery, but who certainly played an important part in the emergence of a new genre that was opera. Presented by Lucie Skeaping
EMS		20050213		The Play of Daniel Andrew Manze introduces a rare performance of the 13th Century Ludus Danielis, The Play of Daniel, recorded last year in Liverpool Cathedral.
EMS		20050220		Another chance to hear a programme broadcast from the Music Live Festival in Belfast last year. The BBC Singers are joined by conductor Peter Phillips to perform music from Renaissance England and Italy. Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis; Suscipe quaeso Byrd: Quomodo cantabimus de Monte: Super flumina Lassus: Te spectant Reginalde Poli Byrd: Tristitia et anxietas Lassus: Tui sunt caeli BBC Singers Peter Phillips (director).
EMS		20050227		Catherine Bott presents a live and interactive edition featuring early music ensemble Badinage, who perform wind sonatas by Bach, Handel and Telemann.
EMS		20050313		Andrew Manze presents the first of two programmes which focus on the music of The Mannheim School. Founded in the early 18th century by Joseph Stamitz, the Mannheim orchestra quickly became one of the most successful in Europe. Music literally poured from the castle walls and made household names of Stamitz, Christian Cannabich and Franz Xaver Richter.
EMS		20050319		John Dowland: The Man and the Myth John Dowland was one of the greatest musicians of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and information about his life is quite plentiful. Why then, do so many inconsistencies about the man remain? Why is the truth about his life shrouded in mystery? Lucie Skeaping explores the life of the enigmatic composer. Meanwhile, Catherine Bott talks to Dr Helen Hackett about the life and poetry of one of the ladies of the time, Lady Mary Wroth. Dowland: Flow my tears Tell me true love Weep you no more, sad fountains O sweet words, the delight of solitarienesse Unquiet Thoughts I saw my lady weep Sweet Stay Awhile Go Crystal Tears.
EMS		20050320		Andrew Manze presents the second of his programmes about the music of the Mannheim School. After nearly 50 years of success at the Mannheim court, the orchestra eventually moved to Munich, taking most of is most important musicians with it. Some of the performers became so successful that they were able to tour Europe; Franz Danzi, clarinettist Franz Tausch and Carl Stamitz all made a living off the back of the Mannheim name.
EMS		20050326		Catherine Bott presents a programme devoted to the sacred music of Orlandus Lassus, performed by the BBC singers conducted by Jeffrey Skidmore.
EMS	The Empress Of Magnificent Taste And Pleasure	20050327		Teresa Cornelys arrived penniless in England in the autumn of 1759, yet, little more than a year later, she was an international Opera star, and owned London's most successful entertainment business. Judith Summers, author of a biography of this incredible woman, talks to Lucie Skeaping about Teresa, who had a rumoured love affair with Gluck and was mother to Casanova's child. Featuring music by Gluck, Handel, Thomas Arne and JC Bach.
EMS		20050403		Catherine Bott introduces a live and interactive edition with harpsichordist Sophie Yates, who performs keyboard works from 17th-century France and the Court of Louis XIV.
EMS	Before Bach	20050409		Lucie Skeaping looks back to some of the composers who most influenced the music of JS Bach.
EMS	Bach To The Future	20050410		Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the works of contemporary composers who have used Early Music pieces as their muse.
EMS		20050417		Lucie Skeaping talks to Ashley Solomon, the founder and director of Florilegium, about their recent recording project in South America. 17th Century vocal and instrumental music from the Jesuit missions in central Bolivia, including works by the Italian missionary, Domenico Zipoli, and by the indigenous Bolivian people themselves. Accomplished, lively and flamboyant music, some of which is written in the local Chiquitanos langauge.
EMS		20050423		Queen Christina of Sweden was one of the most important patrons of the arts in the 17th century, and during her brief reign as Swedish sovereign she introduced her country to the riches of European culture. Catherine Bott looks more closely at Christina's colourful and eventful life, and plays music that would have been heard by her and her entourage on their journey from Sweden to Italy.
EMS		20050424		Catherine Botts' guests on today's live programme are one of the most interesting and inventive Early Music ensembles around: The Dufay Collective. They'll be on hand to answer listeners' questions and to perform music written for Alfonso the Wise, a patron of the arts and King of Castile and Leon from 1252 to 1284, a time when those realms were an outpost of European culture on a peninsula under the domination of the Muslim Moors.
EMS		20050430		In conjunction with the From Sweden Festival, Andrew Manze travels to Stockholm to meet recorder player Dan Laurin. Music includes pieces by Van Eyck, Telemann, Vivaldi and John Eccles.
EMS		20050501		Begoña Olavide Lucie Skeaping talks to the virtuoso psaltery player Begoña Olavide about her revival of this almost extinct instrument, her fascination with the three cultures of medieval Andalusia and her playing and singing with her band Mudejar.
EMS		20050508		As part of The Early Music Shows from Sweden series, Andrew Manze visits Drottningholm Palace in Stockholm, home of the Swedish royal family. Music includes works by Düben, Roman and Zellbell.
EMS	London Handel Festival 2005	20050514		Handel's English Circle Catherine Bott introduces a concert from Handel's own parish church, St George's Hanover Square, where Adrian Butterfield and the London Handel Players perform a programme featuring the music of Handel together with music by some of his English contemporaries. Handel: Flute Concerto in Gm, HWV 287; Passacaglia from No 4 trio sonata, Op 5; Ombre piante from Rodelinda; Il volo cosi fido from Riccardo Primo Festing: Concerto No 8 in D, Op 3 Stanley: Organ Concerto in G, Op 2, No 3 London Handel Players - Oliver Webber (violin) Stephen Bull (violin) William Thorp (violin) Rachel Stott (viola) Katherine Sharman (cello) Cecelia Bruggemeyer (double bass) Adrian Butterfield (director/violin) Joanne Lunn (soprano) Rachel Brown (flute) Laurence Cummings (organ/harpsichord).
EMS		20050515		Lucie Skeaping visits Germany for a live programme from the 85th Göttingen Handel Festival, featuring its director Nicholas McGegan and live music from the cast of this year's opera, Atalanta.
EMS	A - M	20050521		In a special weekend of programmes, the three presenters of the Early Music Show take us on a whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music. Today, the letters A-M.
EMS		20050522		The Early Music Show concludes its journey through the musical alphabet with letters N-Z. Any ideas for X?
EMS	Biber's Rosary Sonatas	20050529		Andrew Manze introduces a selection from Biber's unique collection of 15 violin sonatas. He explores the different ways in which they can be realised, and considers the symbolism behind the music. Sonata No 1, The Annunciation Sonata No 4, The Presentation in the Temple Andrew Manze (violin) Richard Eggar (organ) Sonata No 6, The Agony in the Garden Sonata No 9, The Carrying of the Cross Sonata No 10, The Crucifixion Monica Huggett (violin) Emilia Benjamin (viola da gamba) Matthew Halls (organ) Richard Sweeney (theorbo) Sonata No 11, The Resurrection Pavlo Besnoziuk (violin) David Roblou (organ) Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo) Richard Tunnicliffe (violone).
EMS	Summer Festivals	20050604		Lucie Skeaping talks to Glyn Russ, director of The Early Music Network about the early music content of the forthcoming summer festivals in Leicester, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Buxton, Lichfield and York.
EMS	Concerto Palatino	20050611		Lucie Skeaping is at St John's Smith Square for the first in a series of highlights from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. She joins cornetto player Bruce Dickey and the members of Concerto Palatino who celebrate the impact that the music of Giovanni Gabrieli had on his European contemporaries.
EMS	Carissimi	20050612		Giocamo Carissimi was one of the most celebrated Italian composers of the 17th century, famous as a pioneer of the oratorio. Catherine Bott, a self-confessed Carissimi enthusiast, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the composer's birth.
EMS		20050618		Lucie Skeaping visits The George public house in Southwark to join a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club. With the club's chairman, Patrick Johns, she traces its develoPMent.
EMS		20050619		Catherine Bott's guests on the show are the renowned Early Music choral specialists, The Clerks' Group. Featuring live performances of Obrecht and Robert Morton.
EMS		20050626		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert from last month's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. The RUSSIAn Patriarchate Choir of Moscow perform RUSSIAn orthodox chants and hymns by Dmitry Bortnyansky.
EMS		20050702		Andrew Manze visits Stockholm for the first of two programmes charting the development of early music in Sweden. With music by Andreas and Gustaf Düben, Johann Agrell and Johann Helmich Roman, including performances recorded at Wigmore Hall earlier this year as part of the From Sweden series.
EMS		20050703		Andrew Manze visits Stockholm for the second of two programmes charting the development of early music in Sweden. With music by Hinrich Johnsen, Johann Helmich Roman, and some delightful Swedish folk songs, including performances recorded earlier this year at Wigmore Hall as part of the From Sweden series.
EMS	Rameau And The Harpsichord	20050710		Lucie Skeaping looks at the background to some of the greatest keyboard music from 18th century France - the Pieces de Clavecin of Jean-Phillipe Rameau.
EMS		20050716		Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert from this year's Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, given by Europa Galante. The concert includes music by little known composers such as Geminiani, Barsanti and d'Alai, who in the view of violinist/director Fabio Biondi deserve to be better known. These are framed by Telemann's Burlesque de Quixotte and a Concerto Grosso by Corelli.
EMS		20050717		Catherine Bott hosts a live edition of the show in which listeners can put questions to trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins.
EMS		20050723		Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert given during a recent visit to London by the celebrated Concerto Koln, directed from the violin by Anton Steck. Included in the programme is music inspired by Italy, by Telemann, JS Bach and Vivaldi.
EMS	The Lives And Loves Of Henry's Six Wives	20050724		Henry VIII is one of Britain's most famous monarchs. Virtually every child in England has been taught the Divorced-Beheaded-Died, Divorced-Beheaded-Survived rhyme for remembering what fate eventually befell each of them. Andrew Manze traces their lives through the music which was written about them or which each of them would have heard.
EMS		20050731		Philippe de Vitry was the most ground breaking and innovative musician of his time. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at his works alongside pieces by some of his contemporaries.
EMS		20050806		Andrew Manze continues his journey through the music of Sweden with a focus on the so-called Swedish Troubadour tradition. With songs by Gustaf Düben and Carl Michael Bellman, Manze traces the development of the Swedish song, with performances by Mikael Samuelsson and Anna Emilsson.
EMS		20050807		John Dowland - The Man and the Myth John Dowland was one of the greatest musicians of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and information about his life is quite plentiful. Why then, do so many inconsistencies about the man remain? Why is the truth about his life shrouded in mystery? Lucie Skeaping explores the life of the enigmatic composer. Meanwhile, Catherine Bott talks to Dr Helen Hackett about the life and poetry of one of the ladies of the time, Lady Mary Wroth. Dowland: Flow my tears; Tell me true love; Weep you no more, sad fountains; O sweet words, the delight of solitarienesse; Unquiet Thoughts; I saw my lady weep; Sweet Stay Awhile; Go Crystal Tears.
EMS	Trobairitz. The Medieval Femme Fatale	20050813		Catherine Bott introduces a concert recorded last month in All Saints' Church, York as part of the city's annual early music festival where the group Trobairitz performed a programme of music exploring the world of the Medieval Femme Fatale.
EMS	Musicians Of The Globe	20050814		Elizabeth I's summer progresses from London were widely feared among her nobles, as the burden of providing the lavish spectacle required could easily lead to bankruptcy. Phillip Pickett and The Musicians of the Globe recreate the music that would have been performed for her at Kenilworth and Elvetham in this concert from the York Early Music Festival.
EMS		20050820		Catherine Bott introduces coverage of the final of this year's Early Music Network International Young Artists' Competition, held at the York Early Music Festival.
EMS		20050821		Lucie Skeaping presents a live, interactive edition of The Early Music Show, and asks you to request your favourite Vivaldi Concerto. Call the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate]
EMS	Early Music Discoveries	20050828		You might not expect the world of Early Music to be revealing new and interesting finds after all these years, but take a look at these: Viol player takes up the longbow. 4000 year old harp found to roar like a bull. Set of squiggles may change the way we listen to Bach. Andrew Manze investigates.
EMS		20050903		Catherine Bott introduces a live show from this year's Utrecht Festival of Early Music. Guests include Festival Director Jan van den Bossche and Peter Phillips, director of the Tallis Scholars.
EMS		20050904		Andrew Manze introduces a concert of harpsichord music recorded at this year's York Early Music Festival, and featuring 17th-century French music by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and her family circle, performed by a recognised champion of her music - Carole Cerasi.
EMS		20050910		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at St George's Church, Belfast earlier this year. Motets by Giaches de Wert and Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday, performed by the BBC Singers conducted by Andrew Carwood. Wert, Giaches de: Egressus Jesus for seven voices, 1581b, 6:39 Gesualdo, Carlo: Tenebrae responses for Holy Saturday for six voices, 1611, 14:46; Sicut ovis 3:58; Jerusalem, surge 4:09; Plange quasi Virgo 6:18 Gesualdo, Carlo: Tenebrae responses for Holy Saturday for six voices, 1611, 13:02 Astiterunt reges 2:21 Aestimatus sum 4:34 Sepulto Domino 5:41 BBC Singers Andrew Carwood (director).
EMS		20050911		Zelenka Lucie Skeaping profiles the life, times and music of the Czech 17th and 18th Century composer Jan Dismas Zelenka who, despite being described as a Catholic bigot, won the admiration of many distinguished contemporaries, among them Johann Sebastian Bach. One of most neglected figures of the late baroque period, Zelenka composed some of the most sumptuous and glorious church music ever written.
EMS		20050917		Lucie Skeaping talks to Ashley Solomon, the founder and director of Florilegium, about their recording project in South America. The focus is on 17th Century vocal and instrumental music from the Jesuit missions in central Bolivia, including works by the Italian missionary Domenico Zipoli, and by the indigenous Bolivian people themselves. Accomplished, lively and flamboyant music, some of which is written in the local Chiquito language.
EMS		20050918		Lucie Skeaping presents a live Handelian edition of The Early Music Show, in which she is joined in the studio by The Brook Street Band.
EMS		20050924		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of cello duos by Friedrich Kummer, performed by the American cellists Phoebe Carrai and Tanya Tomkins, recorded at Crear in Argyll and Bute.
EMS		20050925		Queen Christina of Sweden was one of the most important patrons of the arts in the 17th century, and during her brief reign as Swedish sovereign she introduced her country to the riches of European culture. Catherine Bott looks more closely at Christina's colourful and eventful life, and plays music that would have been heard by her and her entourage on their journey from Sweden to Italy.
EMS		20051001		From the atmospheric setting of Windsor Castle Dungeon, a profile of the group Café Mozart, who are about to release a CD of music connected with the Royal Borough.
EMS		20051002		Birds in Medieval Music The medieval world was laden with symbolism in both religious and secular life, much being made of the significance of nature. Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the ways that birds were symbolised and represented in medieval music.
EMS	The Musical Offering	20051008		Andrew Manze takes a look at JS Bach's visit to the court of Frederick the Great and the events which led to the composition of one of Bach's greatest works.
EMS	Through The Seasons	20051009		Lucie Skeaping looks at some of the many recordings of Vivaldi's Quattro Stagioni, and examines how performances of the piece have changed over the decades. From the weather on TV to the pop and classical music charts; from badly recorded lift music to anytime your telephone call gets put on hold, the archetypal music of the seasons seems to have crept into every facet of modern life.
EMS		20051016		Lucie Skeaping talks to conductor Harry Christophers about his work with the choir he founded, The Sixteen.
EMS		20051022		To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar and as part of Nelson weekend, the music surrounding Admiral Lord Nelson's life is celebrated. 1/2. Lady Hamilton's Songbook Catherine Bott and David Owen Norris give a concert marking the life and musical aspirations of Nelson's true love, Lady Emma Hamilton. Featuring pieces taken from her songbook and stories about their relationship, which has been labelled as the biggest scandal of their age.
EMS		20051023		To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar and as part of Nelson weekend, the music surrounding Admiral Lord Nelson's life is celebrated. 2/2. A Sailor's Life From the deck of the HMS Victory, Catherine Bott talks to Alan Knight, tour guide of the great ship, about life in Nelson's Navy, and the songs and shanties Nelson's men would have sung.
EMS	The Brandenburg Concertos	20051029		Andrew Manze takes a look at this famous set of pieces, arguably the greatest concertos in the Baroque repertoire. He examines how Bach's own countrymen have chosen to perform the works over the past half century.
EMS		20051030		Lucie Skeaping presents a live and interactive edition of The Early Music Show, in which her guest is the Swedish lutenist, Jakob Lindberg. Lindberg has held a huge reputation as a solo artist, chamber musician and as an ensemble player for many years, and will be performing live in the studio. His choice of music will include works by Robert Johnson, Giovanni Kapsperger, Gregor Huwet and Michelangelo Galilei
EMS	The Powder Treason	20051105		Beginning a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. The Early Music Show is dedicating its eight programmes over the month of November to the music of Britain. From Edinburgh to Wales, from Lindisfarne to Canterbury, we'll be celebrating both well-known and more obscure gems from the depths of our nation's history. There'll be music from Charles Avison's early 18th Century Newcastle; music from Westminster Abbey marking the 1000th anniversary of England's only Royal Saint, Edward the Confessor; and music from composers who were working during the Civil War. Plus, music of Exeter Cathedral, the Scottish early music ensemble Concerto Caledonia; music from Canterbury; and a history of Early Music in Wales, from the harp to the little known Crwth! Each of the following seven programmes also include a feature about a related place in Britain. On the anniversary of the Gunpowder plot, the programme explores the music which surrounded the plot and it's aftermath, while hearing the story of the Catholic treason from the viewpoint of William Byrd. Byrd understood the frustrations of the Catholics in England, and he was a composer who, though tolerated by the King for his musical talents, found that a man had been arrested for simply owning one of his own compositions.
EMS		20051106		Continuing a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping is joined by James O'Donnell, Susan Rankin and Richard Mortimer at Westminster Abbey to discuss the legacy of Saint Edward the Confessor, England's only Royal Saint, who was born 1000 years ago. There are performances - given by Ensemble Gilles Binchois - of Church music with connections to the Holy King. Andrew Gourlay also chats to James O'Donnell about some of the more recent musical traditions at the Abbey.
EMS		20051112		Made in Wales: Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Sally Harper, in conversation with Catherine Bott, pieces together the fragments of a colourful musical history.
EMS		20051119		Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping heads north east to study the music of two early 18th Century composers, William Shield and Charles Avison. Ashley Byrne heads in the same direction to the ancient settlement of Holy Island.
EMS		20051120		Continuing a series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain, presented by Catherine Bott. Music and Canterbury As the pilgrims of Chaucer's tales made their way to Canterbury, music came up a great deal in their conversation. In fact, Chaucer's narrative gives us a fascinating insight into the place of music in society at that time. Their destination, the great cathedral at Canterbury, was itself a focus for music of a quite different kind.
EMS		20051126		Part of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Lucie Skeaping focuses on the music of times leading up to the English Civil War, the interregnum and the Restoration. Featuring music from composers such as William Lawes, Thomas Tomkins, John Hingeston and John Playford. Plus, Andrew Carwood visits Stonyhurst College in Lancashire - a site used by Oliver Cromwell's army just before their victory at the Battle of Preston.
EMS		20051127		Last of the series of programmes dedicated to the music of Britain. Catherine Bott presents a programme of traditional Scottish music, performed live by Concerto Caledonia - including items from James Robertson's music book of 1800 as well as works by James Oswald and Alexander Reinagle. Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits St Cecilia's Hall in Edinburgh, which houses the Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments.
EMS		20051203		As a postscript to our Made in Britain month, Catherine Bott presents a concert from the Greenwich International Festival of Early Music. Timothy Travers-Brown and Jacob Herringman perform English lute songs in the Old Royal Navel College Chapel. Old favourites by Campion and Dowland can be heard alongside lesser known pieces in the English repertoire.
EMS	Handel And The Foundling Hospital - Part 2	20051211		Handel's Messiah is one of the most celebrated of all choral works - but it took several years to take up its rightful place in this country. Lucie Skeaping looks back at the history of the Messiah during Handel's lifetime and finds out why London's Foundling Hospital played such a significant part in establishing the Messiah's popularity.
EMS	An Elizabethan Christmas At Lleweni Hall	20051231		Organizing a Christmas party always involves writing lists, normally thrown out with the dead crackers. But when a list of party tunes was scribbled in a book of Welsh poetry in the 1590s, a tantalizing glimpse into Tudor life was preserved. Catherine Bott talks to Sally Harper about this fascinating blend of ancient Welsh and modern Tudor culture.
EMS		20060108		Catherine Bott visits Santiago de Compostela in Spain. She follows the annual pilgrimage to the cathedral of St James and delves into the music from the Cantigas de Santa Maria.
EMS		20060121		Catherine Bott introduces a live concert of Early Music from the Recital Hall of the newly opened City Halls in Glasgow.
EMS		20060122		Lucie Skeaping presents a programme of music by the Slovenian composer Jacobus Handl, also known as Jacobus Gallus. He composed over 500 works, mostly sacred, some of which the BBC Singers under Robert Hollingworth perform here, in a recording specially made for the programme. Handl: Musica Musarum germana; Mirabile Mysterium; Benedic Domine; Lamentabatur Jacob.
EMS		20060128		Lucie Skeaping visits The George Inn in Southwark to join a meeting of the Merrie Fellowes Catch Club. She is joined by the club's chairman, Patrick Johns
EMS		20060204		Catherine Bott talks to the countertenor Michael Chance about the father of all modern day countertenors - Alfred Deller. This remarkable musician brought the countertenor back into the limelight, and was responsible for uncovering a great deal of previously unknown music. Includes music by Morley, Purcell, Handel and Bach.
EMS		20060205		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at St George's Church, Belfast. With motets by Giaches de Wert and Carlo Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responses for Holy Saturday - performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by Andrew Carwood.
EMS		20060211		Catherine Bott talks to harpsichordist Maggie Cole about two of the pioneering figures of the harpsichord world in the early 20th century; Wanda Landowska and Violet Gordon Woodhouse. These extraordinary women never met, but their enthusiasm and dedication to their instrument is remarkable. Music includes early recordings of both women, performing Scarlatti, Bach, Rameau and Mozart.
EMS		20060218		3/4. Archive Month: Andrew Manze explores the work of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a musician who has been at the forefront of the Early Music revolution for the last 50 years.
EMS		20060219		Lucie Skeaping introduces three of Bach's Weimar cantatas, as performed by The Purcell Quartet, with Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance, Charles Daniels and Peter Harvey. Recorded at All Saints Church in Hove as part of the 2005 Brighton Early Music Festival, the ensemble plays cantatas BWV 12, 18 and 61.
EMS	Archive Month 4 - The Kuijken Family	20060225		4/4. Archive Month. The Kuijken Family: Lucie Skeaping looks at the careers of the three pioneering Kuijken brothers - Sigiswald, Wieland and Barthold, drawing on favourite moments from recordings. Lucie Skeaping looks at the careers of the three pioneering Kuijken brothers - Sigiswald, Wieland and Barthold, drawing on favourite moments from recordings. .
EMS		20060226		The Hurdy Gurdy has played a significant part in European music since the middle ages. In Britain alone, paintings, prints and even carvings on cathedrals all point to the past popularity of this instrument. Yet how many people today even know what it sounds like? Lucie Skeaping puts this right in the company of Hurdy Gurdy experts Nigel Eaton and Steve Tyler.
EMS	Before Bach	20060304		Lucie Skeaping looks back to some of the composers who most influenced the music of JS Bach. Among composers featured are Telemann, Buxtehude, JC Bach, Schein, Bohm and Vivaldi.
EMS	Innsbruck Early Music Festival	20060311		Lucie Skeaping looks back at some of the highlights of the 2005 festival in the castles and churches of the Austrian Alps.
EMS		20060312		Palestrina and the Council of Trent The demand, by the Council of Trent, for simplicity in music in order that the words might be heard clearly, placed a serious stumbling block in the path of the development of polyphony in the mid 16th Century. Giovanni Palestrina's musical mastery and his skill at word setting greatly affected the outcome of this difficult situation. Andrew Carwood discusses these fascinating events with Catherine Bott.
EMS		20060318		Lucie Skeaping presents Musica Antiqua London, directed by Philip Thorby. Music and conversation live from the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in Greenwich.
EMS	Studio Der Frühen Musik	20060319		Catherine Bott looks at the history and development of this influential and inspirational early music ensemble - from its formation in Munich through to the final years in Basel.
EMS		20060325		1/2. Michelangelo Buonarroti was a defining genius of the Renaissance. On the opening weekend of the British Museum's new exhibition, Michelangelo Drawings, Catherine Bott talks to curator Hugo Chapman about the beginnings of the 60 stormy years of Michelangelo's life that are represented by his works in the exhibition. They look at the music that would have surrounded Michelangelo in late 15th and early 16th-century Italy.
EMS		20060326		2/2. On the opening weekend of the British Museum's new exhibition called Michelangelo Drawings, Catherine Bott continues her discussion with curator Hugo Chapman about the Renaissance genius. They explore the second half of Michelangelo's life and work, and the programme includes the music of Michelangelo's Italian contemporaries.
EMS		20060401		Handel and the Orchestra What sort of ear did Handel have for orchestral colour? What sort of things dictated his choice of instruments in an aria? Looking back to a time when the orchestra was yet to be standardized, Catherine Bott considers the subject with music from Handel's operas and oratorios, including Giulio Cesare, Riccardo Primo and Saul.
EMS		20060402		Lucie Skeaping profiles the life, times and music of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, one of most neglected figures of the late baroque. Zelenka composed some of the most sumptuous and glorious church music ever written, and won the admiration of many distinguished contemporaries, among them Johann Sebastian Bach.
EMS		20060408		William Lawes, an Unmathematical Genius Composer to the court of Charles I, Lawes died young in the turmoil of the Civil War. His music is both exquisitely beautiful and unerringly experimental for its time. Criticised in his own age for failing to adhere to the mathematical rules of music, Lawes still managed to find favour with the King, who referred to him as the 'father of musik'. Andrew Manze explores the life and work of this neglected composer.
EMS		20060409		1/2. Andrew Manze focuses on the music of The Mannheim School. Founded early in the 18th Century by Joseph Stamitz, the Mannheim orchestra quickly became one of the most successful in Europe.
EMS		20060415		Lucie Skeaping presents an Easter programme with the BBC Singers, directed by Harry Christophers. Music includes Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater.
EMS		20060416		Andrew Manze focuses on the music of The Mannheim School. 2/2. After nearly 50 years of success at the Mannheim court, the orchestra eventually moved to Munich, taking most of its most important musicians with it. Some of the performers became so successful that they were able to tour Europe - Franz Danzi, clarinettist Franz Tausch and Carl Stamitz all made a living off the back of the Mannheim name.
EMS		20060422		Andrew Manze takes a parallel look at two masterpieces of 17th century English Opera: John Blow's Venus and Adonis, and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, ahead of St George's Day.
EMS	Purcell Request Show	20060423		Catherine Bott and her guest Gary Cooper play CDs of your favourite Purcell requests and answer any questions you might have about the most famous of English composers. Gary has prepared a selection of Purcell's keyboard music and plays your choices live during the programme. If you'd like to request some Purcell, whether a CD or a piece for Gary to play live in the studio, or you have a question for Kate or Gary, please e-mail earlymusic@bbc.co.uk or contact the Radio Information Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate]
EMS		20060430		Andrew Manze is joined in the studio by harpsichordist and musical director Richard Egarr. Egarr, now based in Amsterdam, performs live, and answers questions from Radio 3 listeners. The repertoire includes Frescobaldi, Louis Couperin, Handel and Bach. If you have anything you'd like to ask Richard Egarr, please e-mail the programme at earlymusic@bbc.co.uk, send a text to 83111 [network rates apply], or telephone the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300 [national rate]
EMS		20060506		Andrew Manze introduces a concert of recently discovered cantatas by JS Bach, given by The Bach Ensemble and soprano Susanne Rydén, directed by Joshua Rifkin. The two cantatas featured are the Köthen version of BWV 199, Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; and BWV 210a, O! angenehme Melodei! - perhaps one of the most melodious of all of Bach's solo cantatas.
EMS	Il Canto Delle Dame	20060513		Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert of music performed by the Argentinian born soprano Maria Christina Kiehr and her group Concerto Soave celebrating Italian women composers of the 17th century. Included is music by Caterina Assandra, Isabella Leonarda and Barbara Strozzi.
EMS	¡ Ay Mi Alhama!	20060514		Catherine Bott and David Miller perform Spanish Romances from the Reconquista. The Ballad was an important musical form at this time. Tess Knighton explores its place in the music of 15th century Spain.
EMS		20060520		Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, orchestral and chamber music, and music for the Venetian theatre. Music includes performances by oboist Heinz Holliger, I Solisti Veneti, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Locatelli trio and Tafelmusik.
EMS		20060521		Catherine Bott is joined in the studio by the director of The Early Music Network - Glyn Russ, to look ahead to this year's summer festivals. Find out what treats are in store at the Lufthansa Festival of Early Music, the York Early Music Festival, the Brighton Early Music Festival and many more.
EMS		20060527		Lucie Skeaping visits the finals of the annual Handel Singing Competition. We'll hear from all the finalists, including a selection from the winner's recital.
EMS		20060528		Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from a concert given at the 2006 Bath Festival by Fretwork, which explores music created by Jewish immigrants for the English Court during the 16th Century.
EMS		20060603		1/2. A whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music, starting with the letters A-M.
EMS		20060604		2/2. A whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music, ending with the letters N-Z.
EMS		20060611		Lucie Skeaping focuses on the baroque recorder, assisted by the group Passacaglia who perform music by Dornel, Marais and Handel.
EMS		20060617		Oxford University in the 16th and 17th Centuries had a very distinguished list of musical alumni - John Bull, Thomas Weekes, Morely and Tomkins among them. Andrew Manze investigates the importance of academe to the music of this period and in particular the patronage of William Heather, whose name is still linked to an Oxford professorship.
EMS		20060618		Andrew Manze explores the fascinating life of revered Baroque composer Vivaldi. Including music performed by the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the English Concert and the Academy of Ancient Music.
EMS		20060624		Lucie Skeaping features highlights from a concert of Italian madrigals by Monteverdi, D'India and Marenzio, given by La Venexiana at the Schwezingen Festivaland.
EMS		20060625		Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe during the 16th and 17th Centuries. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument.
EMS	Princes And Ambassadors	20060701		The year 1524 saw a rather unusual arrival to these shores from the continent. Dr David Skinner reveals all to Andrew Manze, with music from Magdala.
EMS		20060702		Lucie Skeaping talks to conductor Harry Christophers about his work with the choir he founded, The Sixteen.
EMS		20060708		Catherine Bott presents a live programme from the York Early Music Festival, featuring performances from recorder player Pamela Thorby, the group Liber Unusualis and The York Waits.
EMS	The Brandenburg Concertos	20060715		Andrew Manze takes a look at this famous set of pieces, arguably the greatest concertos in the Baroque repertoire, and examines how Bach's own countrymen have chosen to perform the works over the past 50 years.
EMS	Samuel Scheidt	20060722		Andrew Manze presents a programme dedicated to the music of the 16th Century German composer, Samuel Scheidt. Music includes performances by Musica Fiata, the Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Ensemble, organist Helmut Wacha, The London Sackbutt and Cornett Ensemble and Hesperion.
EMS	Il Canzoniere	20060723		The Huelgas Ensemble with their director Paul van Nevel perform Orlando di Lasso's settings of Francesco Petrarch's exquisite love poems.
EMS		20060730		Andrew Manze introduces music by Georg Philipp Telemann, in two recordings by Musica Antiqua Köln and The King's Consort. Robert King conducts extracts from Telemann's Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth in the first part of the programme, and in the second part, soprano Barbara Schlick sings the title role in the dramatic cantata Ino.
EMS		20060805		Catherine Bott visits Lisbon to delve into the wealth of music written in Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries. With music by Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, and Filipe de Magalhaes.
EMS		20060806		Catherine Bott presents the second of two programmes devoted to the early music of Portugal. With music by the great keyboard master Carlos de Seixas, and contemporaries such as Antonio Teixeira and Joao de Sousa Carvalho, this programme highlights the patronage of the Braganca family in the lead-up to the great earthquake of 1755.
EMS		20060813		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert recorded at this year's Ludlow Festival, as part of The Sixteen's annual choral pilgrimage. Beautiful Spanish polyphony, performed in the equally beautiful surroundings of the Parish Church of St Laurence in Ludlow. Music includes three of Tomas Luis de Victoria's best known motets and his Requiem of 1605.
EMS	A Musicall Banquet	20060819		Catherine Bott introduces a selection of music by John Dowland and his contemporaries taken from anthologies published by the composer's son Robert. Performed by tenor Mark Padmore with lutenist Elizabeth Kenny.
EMS	Double Dutch - 1 - The Age Of The Netherlanders	20060826		By the early 16th century, virtually every major musical centre in Europe was run by a musician from the Low Countries. Lucie Skeaping explores the incredible and unexplained golden age of Netherlanders. Composers such as Dufay, Binchois, Ockeghem and Josquin are featured. Jacques Maassen, director of the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, also guides us through the age-old tradition of carillon playing in the Low Countries.
EMS		20060902		Catherine Bott looks to 15th Century Naples, and the cultured and cosmopolitan House of Aragon, featuring music recorded at the York Early Music Festival from the Italian group Ensemble Micrologus.
EMS	Edward The Confessor And The Abbey	20060903		Lucie Skeaping is joined by James O'Donnell, Susan Rankin and Richard Mortimer at Westminster Abbey to discuss the legacy of Saint Edward the Confessor, England's only Royal Saint, who was born 1,000 years ago. There will be performances, given by Ensemble Gilles Binchois, of Church music with connections to this Holy King. Andrew Gourlay also chats to James about some of the more recent musical traditions at the Abbey.
EMS		20060909		Andrew Manze marks the 65th birthday of keyboard player and conductor Christopher Hogwood, with recordings taken from over 35 years. Including works by Arne, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Handel and Purcell.
EMS		20060916		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of cello duos by Friedrich Kummer, performed by the American cellists Phoebe Carrai and Tanya Tomkins. Recorded at Crear in Argyll and Bute.
EMS		20060917		Lucie Skeaping takes a look at the music of the two Gabrielis - Andrea and his nephew Giovanni. They both lived in the stimulating musical climate of 16th-century Venice - and had a taste for rich sonorities, composing ceremonial music of huge expression and technical mastery.
EMS		20060923		Catherine Bott interviews four members of the vocal ensemble Gothic Voices, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Featuring music from the group's extensive discography, including works by Machaut, Pierre de la Rue, Juan del Encina, Hildegard of Bingen - and excerpts from their new disc of works by Solage.
EMS		20060924		Accademia Bizantina from Sanssouci: Italian baroque string music from the sumptuous surroundings of the Orangery in the Palace at Potsdam, presented by Lucie Skeaping
EMS		20061008		Lucie Skeaping introduces a concert from St Luke's in London. Singer/songwriter Sting, lute player Edin Karamazov and singers Stile Antico explore the life and music of the Elizabethan John Dowland.
EMS		20061014		Catherine Bott visits the town of Elche in south eastern Spain to take in the spectacle of its annual Mystery Play. Written in a combination of Latin and the local Valencian dialect, this piece of religious theatre occurs every year on the feast of the Assumption of Mary.
EMS		20061015		Lucie Skeaping talks to Jeffrey Skidmore, director of the consort Ex Cathedra, and plays music recorded from their concert at this year's York Early Music Festival. The performance features pieces from the Bourbon dynasty across the world, including works from France by Le Jeune, Lully and Henri Dumont, and Juan de Araujo and Salazar from Spain.
EMS	Francois Couperin's Pieces De Clavecin	20061021		Lucie Skeaping is joined by author and harpsichordist Jane Clark for a focus on some of the greatest keyboard music of the French baroque.
EMS		20061028		Lucie Skeaping showcases the talents of gamba player Friederike Heumann. Music includes performances of suites by Marin Marais and a gamba duet by Marais's teacher Sainte-Colombe.
EMS		20061029		Catherine Bott visits Florence to sample the thriving musical activities of the Accademia San Felice, a cultural association that stages early music concerts and festivals in Tuscany. The academy's resident early music ensemble, under the direction of Federico Bardazzi, researches, performs and records music ranging from plainchant to the baroque.
EMS	Trevor Pinnock At 60	20061202		Catherine Bott is joined by Trevor Pinnock and John Butt to discuss the history, legacy and popularity of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. The programme includes a feature about Pinnock's newly-formed European Brandenburg Ensemble, from their summer residency in Sheffield.
EMS	Trevor Pinnock At 60	20061203		To celebrate the 60th birthday of one of Britain's best-loved musicians, Catherine Bott talks to Trevor about his career as a harpsichordist and director of The English Concert. The programme includes pieces by J C Bach, Handel, Haydn, Arne and Rameau.
EMS		20070120		Catherine Bott's guest is internationally renowned harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuelle Haim. She talks about her career and her work with her ensemble Le Concert d'Astree. Listeners can contact the programme at The Early Music Show, Room 1115, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester M60 1SJ, or call the Radio 3 Audience Line on 08700 100 300.
EMS		20070121		Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His toccatas provided the model for Buxtehude and Bach. They also discuss a recently discovered manuscript, dating from Froberger's final years, that was sold in November at Sotheby's.
EMS		20070127		Andrew Manze visits Stockholm to meet recorder player Dan Laurin. Music includes pieces by Van Eyck, Telemann, Vivaldi and John Eccles.
EMS		20070128		Andrew Manze visits Drottningholm Palace, home of the Swedish royal family. Music includes works by Duben, Roman and Zellbell.
EMS		20070203		Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard
EMS		20070204		Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from two concerts given in last year's Regensburg Early Music Days Festival. One concert has a Chinese theme and features music by the Italian scientist and missionary Matteo Ricci, who spent the last 27 years of his life in China.
EMS		20070217		Andrew Manze charts the life and career of the 18th-century Italian violinist and composer Francesco Maria Veracini. Performers include Bergen Barokk, John Holloway, Capriccio Stravagante and Musica Antiqua Köln.
EMS		20070218		Catherine Bott looks at Cavalli's opera Calisto and how approaches to this work have developed since the pioneering recording and performances by Raymond Leppard
EMS		20070219		Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Robert Woolley and music editor Dr Richard Jones about Johann Froberger, whose influence is of great importance in the development of baroque keyboard music. His toccatas provided the model for Buxtehude and Bach. They also discuss a recently discovered manuscript, dating from Froberger's final years, that was sold in November at Sotheby's.
EMS		20070318		Andrew Manze presents a programme dedicated to the music of the 16th Century German composer, Samuel Scheidt. Music includes performances by Musica Fiata and Hesperion.
EMS		20070325		Lucie Skeaping profiles the life and music of the Italian Baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni, whose output included not only a large number of oboe concertos, but also a vast amount of choral, orchestral and chamber music plus music for the Venetian theatre. The programme includes performances by oboist Heinz Holliger, I Solisti Veneti, The Academy of Ancient Music, the Locatelli trio and Tafelmusik.
EMS		20070326		Instrumental music from the court of Dresden. 'Encourage the arts, Madame, nothing lends more posthumous fame to our lives' Friedrich II of Prussia once advised the Electress of Saxony. Saxony and its capital Dresden had long been the centre of European culture and many composers wrote for the Dresden orchestra. Catherine Bott presents a programme of music including works by Heinichen, Hasse and the virtuoso violinist Veracini.
EMS		20070331		Catherine Bott presents a live edition of the programme with guests Rogers Covey-Crump, Michael Chance and Mhairi Lawson. They discuss their thoughts and experiences of performing Bach's St Matthew and St John Passions, and play excerpts from recordings of these two great works.
EMS		20070401		Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi.
EMS		20070408		Catherine Bott traces the development of the violin concerto in Italy, with the violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. Music includes works by Legrenzi, Torelli, Taglietti and Locatelli.
EMS		20070414		Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate the themes in George Herbert's short, meditative poem The Pulley.
EMS		20070415		Catherine Bott traces the development of the violin concerto in Italy and discusses this with violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. Music includes works by Legrenzi, Torelli, Taglietti and Locatelli.
EMS		20070416		Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts. He illustrates with musical examples, including madrigals by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi.
EMS		20070422		Catherine Bott presents a Latin-American amalgam of two concerts given during the 2006 Flanders Festival in Antwerp, featuring Argentinian group Musica Temprana and Rolf Lislevand's Ensemble Kapsberger. The music performed comes from the Iberian peninsula and South America, and includes songs and instrumental works by Juan de Araujo and Santiago de Murcia.
EMS		20070423		George Herbert's poem The Pulley is Catherine Bott's inspiration for this programme, and she plays music to illustrate the themes included within this short, but meditative, poem.
EMS		20070526		Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late-medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences.
EMS		20070602		To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Domenico Scarlatti, Catherine Bott presents a programme of harpsichord works performed by Carole Cerasi at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. Plus a feature in which David Vickers examines Scarlatti's years in Spain.
EMS		20070603		Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician, John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late-medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences.
EMS		20070609		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the young French countertenor, Philippe Jaroussky. With his group, Ensemble Ataserse, Jaroussky performs, amongst other works, Scarlatti's Per un vago desire and Handel's Lungi da me pensier tiranno.
EMS		20070610		To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Domenico Scarlatti, Catherine Bott presents a programme of harpsichord works performed by Carole Cerasi at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. David Vickers also focuses on Scarlatti's years in Spain.
EMS		20070611		It is now being repeated 8 days after the ordiginal broadcast.
EMS		20070617		Lucie Skeaping presents a concert given by the young French countertenor, Philippe Jaroussky. With his group, Ensemble Ataserse, Jaroussky performs works by Scarlatti and Handel, including the Handel cantatas Lungi da me pensier tiranno and Mi palpita il cor.
EMS		20070623		Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day. 1/2. Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668.
EMS		20070624		Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. 2/2. Lucie presents highlights of several concerts recorded in Lubeck and in Buxtehude's hometown of Helsingor. Music includes performances by countertenor Andreas Scholl, organist Bine Bryndorf and Cantus Colln directed by Konrad Jungahanel.
EMS		20070701		Andrew Manze introduces music by Telemann, in two recordings by Musica Antiqua Koln and The King's Consort. With excerpts from Telemann's Wassermusik followed by soprano Barbara Schlick singing the title role in the dramatic cantata Ino.
EMS		20070702		In the 16th and 17th centuries, Oxford University had a very distinguished list of musical alumni, John Bull, Thomas Weelkes, Morley and Tomkins among them. Andrew Manze investigates the importance of academe to the music of this period and in particular the patronage of William Heather, whose name is still linked to an Oxford professorship.
EMS		20070709		Lucie Skeaping presents two programmes devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. 2/2. Lucie presents highlights of several concerts recorded in Lubeck and in Buxtehude's hometown of Helsingor. Music includes performances by countertenor Andreas Scholl, organist Bine Bryndorf and Cantus Colln directed by Konrad Jungahanel.
EMS		20070805		Catherine Bott talks to Michael Chance about the father of all modern day countertenors, Alfred Deller. This remarkable musician brought the countertenor back into the limelight, and was responsible for uncovering a great deal of previously unknown music. The programme includes music by Morley, Purcell, Handel and Bach.
EMS		20070805		Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Gluck's magnum opus, Orpheus ed Eurydice. The Age of Enlightenment was concerned with the natural, the rational and the human, and Gluck was very much part of that world, striving for what he called 'a beautiful simplicity'. First performed in Vienna in 1762, this work is one of the most influential operas of all time, and along with librettist Calzabigi and choreographer Angiolini, Gluck created a whole new world on the opera stage. Recordings include performances by Janet Baker, James Bowman, Derek Lee Ragin and Bernarda Fink.
EMS		20070812		Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument.
EMS		20070813		Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Gluck's magnum opus, Orpheus ed Eurydice. The Age of Enlightenment was concerned with the natural, the rational and the human, and Gluck was very much part of that world, striving for what he called 'a beautiful simplicity'. First performed in Vienna in 1762, this work is one of the most influential operas of all time, and along with librettist Calzabigi and choreographer Angiolini, Gluck created a whole new world on the opera stage. Recordings include performances by Janet Baker, James Bowman, Derek Lee Ragin and Bernarda Fink.
EMS		20070818	20070826	Lucie Skeaping visits Stirling Castle and talks to James Ross about the music that may have been heard there during the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Music includes excerpts from a mass by Robert Carver. Plus a feature about the work of French Huguenot composer Jean Servin.
EMS		20070820		Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of the sackbut and its use as an ensemble instrument in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. Music includes pieces by Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Lassus, Scheidt and Locke. Andrew Gourlay visits the home of trombonist and sackbut player Simon Wills for a potted history and demonstration of the instrument.
EMS		20070826		In the first of the Early Music Show's programmes covering this year's Edinburgh International Festival, Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert from Greyfriar's Kirk of madrigals from the sixth book by Monteverdi given by Concerto Italiano directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini.
EMS		20070903		Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert of madrigals from the sixth book by Monteverdi, given by the Concerto Italiano directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini
EMS		20070908	20070916	Catherine Bott introduces highlights from a concert given at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. The Tallis Scholars, conducted by Peter Phillips, perform sacred music from the Iberian peninsula, including beautiful Marian masses and motets by Victoria, Guerrero, Lobo and Padilla.
EMS		20070909		Ashley Solomon presents a programme of music from the Italian Renaissance, with sacred and secular vocal works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Strozzi. James Weeks conducts the vocal ensemble Exaudi in highlights from concerts given at the 2007 Aldeburgh Festival and the Brighton Soundworks Festival.
EMS		20070916		Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from a concert given at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. Violinist Chiara Banchini with Ensemble 415 make their Edinburgh debut with a programme of Italian chamber sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi and the Paginini of his day, Pietro Antonio Locatelli.
EMS		20070917		Ashley Solomon presents a programme of music from the Italian Renaissance, with sacred and secular vocal works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Luzzaschi and Strozzi. James Weeks conducts the vocal ensemble Exaudi in highlights from concerts given at the 2007 Aldeburgh Festival and the Brighton Soundworks Festival.
EMS		20070924		Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights from a concert given at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, as part of the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. Violinist Chiara Banchini with Ensemble 415 make their Edinburgh debut with a programme of Italian chamber sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi and the Paginini of his day, Pietro Antonio Locatelli.
EMS		20071006		Children of the Revolution 1/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and some of the composers who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. With music by Gretry, Gossec, Cherubini, Edelmann and Mehul.
EMS		20071007		The Sixteen, A Choral Pilgrimage: Music from the Sistine Chapel Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given by The Sixteen under their director Harry Christophers at York Minster as part of the York Early Music Festival. The music all comes from the Vatican library and includes works by Anerio, Palestrina and Allegri.
EMS		20071007		Children of the Revolution 2/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and those who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. Featured composers include Gossec, Cherubini, Mehul, Boieldieu and Dussek.
EMS		20071008		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. Archive performances include Bach's Cantata No 54 and music by Telemann and Purcell.
EMS		20071014		Children of the Revolution 1/2. Lucie Skeaping looks at the music of the French Revolution and some of the composers who lived and worked in Paris through the years of terror at the end of the 18th century. With music by Gretry, Gossec, Cherubini, Edelmann and Mehul.
EMS		20071021		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, and together they delve into the BBC archives.
EMS		20071027		Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi.
EMS		20071028		Battle Music Lucie Skeaping explores compositions with a battle theme. It is no wonder that 17th century composers were fascinated by warfare: the Thirty Years War is perhaps what fired the imagination of Biber in his Battalia. Including works by Schmelzer, Scheidt and Janequin.
EMS		20071028		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.
EMS		20071103		Never the Twain Shall Meet 'East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet', so wrote Rudyard Kipling, but in the world of early music at least, the artistry of the Middle East exerted a huge influence on the instruments and compositions of Europe. From Greek music theory to wandering minstrels, and poetic song-forms to filigree melodies, Lucie Skeaping surveys the musical legacy of this lively contact, visiting medieval dance-music, Sephardic song and plainchant along the way.
EMS		20071104		Robert Hollingworth traces the development of the madrigal and the significance of the texts, with musical examples by Verdelot, Willaert, Marenzio and Monteverdi.
EMS		20071110		Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen, in a programme including John Taverner's Western Wind Mass, given at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
EMS		20071111		Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of the inimitable Charles Burney The 18th century music-writer, teacher, organist and composer was well known for having opinions on just about everything and, during his extensive travels through Europe, he met some of the great musical luminaries of his day, including Padre Martini, Scarlatti and even the young Mozart.
EMS		20071118		Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert by Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen, in a programme including John Taverner's Western Wind Mass, given at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
EMS		20071118		Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about one of the most important surviving Icelandic music manuscripts, Melodia or Rask 98, which was written around 1660 by an unknown scribe. It contains 223 songs, more than virtually any other Icelandic collection, and many of them are unique to this source. Ingolfsson also founded the vocal ensemble Carmina, who specialise in renaissance polyphony, and the programme includes some of their recordings of music from this and other Icelandic manuscripts.
EMS		20071119		Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life and travels of the inimitable Charles Burney The 18th century music-writer, teacher, organist and composer was well known for having opinions on just about everything and, during his extensive travels through Europe, he met some of the great musical luminaries of his day, including Padre Martini, Scarlatti and even the young Mozart.
EMS		20071124	20071202	Harpsichordist and conductor Laurence Cummings explores the life and operas of Reinhard Keiser. Keiser was a prolific composer of opera in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but his music was often neglected in favour Handel's work, who in fact was influenced by and borrowed musical ideas from Keiser.
EMS		20071125		Mr and Mrs Hasse A profile of the German-born composer Hasse, who married the widely celebrated mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni. Hasse enjoyed great success both at home in Germany and in Italy, but this was short-lived. Lucie Skeaping plays chamber, vocal and orchestral music by Hasse, and recounts tales of his wife's behaviour in the opera house.
EMS		20071125		Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles which lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece, the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many mysteries about the work which remain unsettled to this day.
EMS		20071126		Lucie Skeaping talks to Arni Ingolfsson about one of the most important surviving Icelandic music manuscripts, Melodia or Rask 98, which was written around 1660 by an unknown scribe. It contains 223 songs, more than virtually any other Icelandic collection, and many of them are unique to this source. Ingolfsson also founded the vocal ensemble Carmina, who specialise in renaissance polyphony, and the programme includes some of their recordings of music from this and other Icelandic manuscripts.
EMS		20071201		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.
EMS		20071202	20071210	The year 1685 is considered an annus mirabilis as it was the birth year of three great composers, Handel, JS Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. Catherine Bott presents a programme that puts this year into the context of the musical world these three were born into. Music includes works by Purcell, Corelli, Bononcini and Lully.
EMS		20071203		Lucie Skeaping delves into the riddles which lie behind Bach's late great masterpiece, the Art of Fugue. Considered to be the definitive exploration of musical counterpoint, there are still many mysteries about the work which remain unsettled to this day.
EMS		20071209		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
EMS		20071215		Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day. Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668.
EMS		20071223		Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to the life and music of Dieterich Buxtehude, who died 300 years ago this year. Buxtehude is known as the leading German composer between Schutz and Bach, and many of his organ compositions were considered avant-garde in their day. Lucie travels to Lubeck to find out more about the composer's life by visiting places connected to him, including St Mary's Church where he was the organist from 1668.
EMS		20071229		Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler. A disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, Soler entered the monastery at El Escorial, near Madrid, in 1752, where he remained for the last 31 years of his life, composing keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works.
EMS		20071230		Lucie Skeaping focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach.
EMS		20080106		Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier. Charpentier was over-shadowed to a certain extent by his contemporary Lully, and it is really only in the last few decades that this opera has been rediscovered. The music is considered some of Charpentier's finest, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century!.
EMS		20080107		Lucie Skeaping focuses on a fascinating collection of 17th century German instrumental music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig. Assembled by Jacob Ludwig as a birthday present for his patron Duke August of Gotha, the collection features composers from all over Germany, including Antonio Bertali, Johann Nicolai, Johann Schmelzer, Adam Drese, Samuel Capricornus and Nathanael Schnittelbach.
EMS		20080112		Catherine Bott presents selected highlights from the 2007 Stockholm Early Music Festival, with performances by young Swedish ensemble G󶴥org Baroque, and recorder player Kerstin Fr󶤩, cellist Chrichan Larson and harpsichordist Peter L󶮮rberg. Music includes works with a Swedish connection by Franz Tunder, Christian Geist and Buxtehude.
EMS		20080114		Lucie Skeaping presents a programme devoted to Euripides's great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier. Charpentier was over-shadowed to a certain extent by his contemporary Lully, and it is really only in the last few decades that this opera has been rediscovered. The music is considered some of Charpentier's finest, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century!.
EMS		20080119		Lucie Skeaping features the music of the Lincolnshire-born composer and church musician John Taverner. Unequalled among English musicians of his time, he combined the florid writing of the late Medieval period with newer continental Renaissance influences.
EMS		20080120		Catherine Bott presents a portrait of the intriguing Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler. A disciple of Domenico Scarlatti, Soler entered the monastery at El Escorial, near Madrid, in 1752, where he remained for the last 31 years of his life, composing keyboard sonatas, chamber music and choral works.
EMS		20080121		Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate the themes included in George Herbert's short but meditative poem The Pulley.
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