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The Early Music Show Episodes

  1. Lucrezia Vizzana and the rebellious nuns of Bologna

    Lucie Skeaping tells the remarkable story of a convent full of mutinous musicians

  2. Presenter Hannah French with composer Jocelyn Pook on represenations of period music in film.

    Hannah French looks back at representations of period music in film.

  3. Empowered Women

    Performance and news from the world of early music.

  4. English Satire and Opera in the 18th Century

    Performance and news from the world of early music.

  5. Matthias Weckman

    Performance and news from the world of early music.

  6. Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble

    Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble from Poland perform music by Monteverdi and ZieleΕ„ski in Czechia.

  7. Chinoiserie

    Performance and news from the world of early music.

  8. Early Music for Christmas Eve

    Festive pieces with a historical vibe.

  9. Carl Friedrich Abel

    Lucie Skeaping delves into the life and music of C18 viol player Carl Friedrich Abel.

  10. Early Music in Derbyshire

    Performance and news from the world of Early Music.

  11. English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble

    Music for brass from the Golden Age of the Spanish Renaissance.

  12. Herreweghe meets Petrarch

    Philippe Herreweghe directs music inspired by the great 14C Italian poet Petrarch.

  13. An imaginary funeral for Charles V

    A concert given by ensemble La Tempete at the 2023 Utrecht Festival of Early Music.

  14. The Tallis Scholars at 50

    Founder Peter Phillips reviews the Tallis Scholars' five-decade career.

  15. Hidden gems of the French Baroque

    Ensemble Moliere perform works by Guillemain, Duphly, Corrette and Boismortier.

  16. Fifty years of the Academy of Ancient Music

    Hannah French chats to Laurence Cummings and John McMunn of the Academy of Ancient Music.

  17. Byrd is the Word

    The EX CORDE vocal ensemble perform sacred and secular music by William Byrd

  18. Guillaume de Machaut

    Lucie Skeaping discovers the remarkable Guillaume de Machaut, renowned poet and composer

  19. The Taverner Consort at 50

    Hannah French talks to Andrew Parrott, founder of the Taverner Consort and Players.

  20. Tuma's Te Deum

    Andreas Scholl and the Prague Ensemble Baroque perform sacred music by Frantisek Tuma.

  21. Antonio Cesti

    Lucie Skeaping delves into the life and music of Italian composer Antonio Cesti.

  22. Hidden in plain sight

    Violinist Rachel Podger performs Baroque masterpieces at the York Early Music Festival.

  23. Baroque chamber music rarities

    L'Apotheose perform Johann, Anton and Carl Stamitz at the York Early Music Festival.

  24. The harp, the philtre and the sword

    Medieval music from the ensemble Apotropaik at the York Early Music Festival.

  25. Dutch Organ Improvisation

    Sietz de Vries takes Hannah French on an organ tour of Groningen in The Netherlands.

  26. Live from the York Early Music Festival

    Performances by baroque ensemble I Zefirelli and the Butter Quartet.

  27. William Byrd's keyboard music

    Lucie Skeaping looks at how Byrd set the course of English keyboard music.

  28. Alessandro Stradella: Music, mayhem and murder

    A look at the life and work of Italian Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella.

  29. Ensemble Moliere at the Beverley Early Music Festival

    Performance and news from the world of Early Music.

  30. Bach's arrival in Leipzig

    Mark Seow explores the impact of JS Bach's cantata Die Elenden sollen essen.

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