Hannah French explores the world of Spring from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Published on Tuesday, 1st July 2025.
Hannah French explores the world of Summer from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Performance and news from the world of early music.
Published on Friday, 30th May 2025.
Hannah French explores the world of Winter from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2025.
Hannah French explores the world of early music in Iceland.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2025.
Hannah French explores the Tudor music of Wolf Hall.
Hannah French explores the world of Early Music.
Hannah French explores music in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris from the 12-18th centuries.
Published on Sunday, 8th December 2024.
As the Paris Olympics draw to a close, Hannah French explores gold in early music.
Published on Sunday, 8th September 2024.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2024.
Hannah French marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of madrigalist John Wilbye.
Hannah French explores the world of early music.
Hannah French explores the world of medieval, renaissance and baroque music.
Marking the Paris Olympics, Hannah French explores early music associated with silver.
As the Paris Olympics draw near, Hannah French explores early music connected with bronze.
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2024.
Performance and news from the world of Early Music.
Published on Sunday, 14th January 2024.
Festive pieces with a historical vibe.
Published on Sunday, 24th December 2023.
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2023.
Lucie Skeaping delves into the life and music of C18 viol player Carl Friedrich Abel.
Published on Sunday, 10th December 2023.
Published on Sunday, 3rd December 2023.
Founder Peter Phillips reviews the Tallis Scholars' five-decade career.
Published on Sunday, 29th October 2023.
Hannah French chats to Laurence Cummings and John McMunn of the Academy of Ancient Music.
Published on Sunday, 15th October 2023.
Lucie Skeaping discovers the remarkable Guillaume de Machaut, renowned poet and composer
Published on Sunday, 1st October 2023.
Hannah French talks to Andrew Parrott, founder of the Taverner Consort and Players.
Published on Sunday, 27th August 2023.
Lucie Skeaping delves into the life and music of Italian composer Antonio Cesti.
Published on Sunday, 13th August 2023.
Sietz de Vries takes Hannah French on an organ tour of Groningen in The Netherlands.
Published on Sunday, 16th July 2023.
Lucie Skeaping looks at how Byrd set the course of English keyboard music.
Published on Sunday, 2nd July 2023.
Mark Seow explores the impact of JS Bach's cantata Die Elenden sollen essen.
Published on Sunday, 28th May 2023.
Lucie Skeaping meets the singer-songwriters of 13th-century northern France.
Published on Sunday, 14th May 2023.
Hannah French chats to Stephen Rice about The Brabant Ensemble's 25th anniversary.
Published on Sunday, 26th March 2023.
Hannah French leafs through a book of 100 exhibits exploring Renaissance music history
Published on Sunday, 12th March 2023.
The history of German art song from its beginnings in the 12th century to the Renaissance.
Published on Sunday, 5th March 2023.
Celebrating the life and work of Clare Salaman, champion of rare and exotic instruments.
Published on Sunday, 22nd January 2023.
Stile Antico share their love of William Byrd with Hannah French.
Published on Sunday, 1st January 2023.
Hannah French celebrates Gabrieli's 40th birthday with artistic director, Paul McCreesh.
Published on Sunday, 25th December 2022.
A celebration of the 40th anniversary of His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts.
Published on Sunday, 11th December 2022.
Hannah French is in Germany to mark 40 years of the Akademie für alte Musik Berlin.
Published on Sunday, 4th December 2022.
Hannah French chats to the Dunedin Consort's artistic director, John Butt
Published on Sunday, 27th November 2022.
Lucie Skeaping and Magnus Williamson explore the life and music of composer Robert Parsons
Published on Sunday, 2nd October 2022.
Hannah French explores the major recording series the Vivaldi Edition
Published on Sunday, 25th September 2022.
A tribute to Belinda Sykes, founder of medieval and folk music band Joglaresa.
Published on Sunday, 17th July 2022.
Lucie Skeaping uncovers the life of John Blanke, King Henry VIII's black trumpet player.
Published on Sunday, 29th May 2022.
Ensemble Molière play Lully, Couperin and Telemann, showing C18 French and Italian tastes.
Published on Sunday, 15th May 2022.
Hannah is in Cambridge exploring links between Handel and a city that he never visited!
Published on Sunday, 3rd April 2022.
A celebration of the 450th anniversary of the birth of the composer Thomas Tomkins.
Published on Sunday, 27th March 2022.
Hannah French and historian Ron Merlino explore music and wine from 18th-century Venice.
Published on Sunday, 6th March 2022.
Hannah French and wine historian Ron Merlino explore Venetian music associated with wine.
Published on Sunday, 27th February 2022.
Hannah French uncovers the amazing story of a 15th-century songbook rediscovered in 2014.
Published on Sunday, 13th February 2022.
Lucie Skeaping explores the music Charpentier composed for Molière's final theatre pieces.
Published on Sunday, 16th January 2022.
The music, food and traditions of Christmas in Bohemia
Published on Sunday, 26th December 2021.
Hannah French seeks the real Lucrezia Borgia through the music she knew and loved.
Published on Sunday, 12th December 2021.
Lucie Skeaping marks the 500th anniversary of the death of English composer Robert Fayrfax
Published on Sunday, 5th December 2021.
Scary music for Hallowe'en by Gluck, Handel, Rameau, Marais and Mozart.
Published on Sunday, 31st October 2021.
Music associated with the ancient Greek concept of the four elements. Today... fire.
Published on Sunday, 17th October 2021.
Music associated with the ancient Greek concept of the Four elements. Today... air.
Published on Sunday, 26th September 2021.
Music associated with the household of West Horsley Place in Surrey in the 16th century.
Published on Sunday, 12th September 2021.
Ana Her celebrates the 350th anniversary of the birth of Tomaso Albinoni on 8 June 1671.
Published on Sunday, 6th June 2021.
Lucie Skeaping on the concept of liberty with music by Byrd, Barbara Strozzi and Handel.
Published on Sunday, 23rd May 2021.
Hannah French chooses music to balance the humours and transform the spirit.
Published on Sunday, 16th May 2021.
Lucie Skeaping explores operas inspired by Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso.
Published on Sunday, 18th April 2021.
Hannah French talks to conductor Jeffrey Skidmore about his career in early music.
Published on Tuesday, 13th April 2021.
Hannah French looks into the music and history behind Bach's Easter Oratorio.
Published on Sunday, 4th April 2021.
The colourful lives and music of two German princess-composers... both called Anna Amalia!
Published on Sunday, 7th March 2021.
Mark Seow explores links between Bach's music and farming - of the soil, heart and soul.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021.
Lucie Skeaping explores the works of one of colonial Latin America's greatest composers.
Published on Sunday, 24th January 2021.
Hannah French and wine historian Ron Merlino explore connections between Lassus and wine.
Published on Sunday, 3rd January 2021.
Published on Sunday, 27th December 2020.
Lucie Skeaping delves into the darkness and light of chiaroscuro in music and art.
Published on Sunday, 13th December 2020.
Hannah French and Zak Ozmo explore the life and work of 16thC lutenist Vincenzo Galilei.
Published on Tuesday, 17th November 2020.
Lucie Skeaping on the life and performances of 18th-century castrato Caffarelli.
Published on Monday, 14th September 2020.
Polish folk tunes and their influence on the music of Georg Philipp Telemann.
Published on Sunday, 13th September 2020.
Music associated with all things earthly.
Published on Saturday, 29th August 2020.
Hannah French profiles the life and music of C15th English composer John Dunstaple.
Published on Sunday, 16th August 2020.
Lucie Skeaping looks back at previous winners of the Young Artists Competition in York.
Published on Monday, 13th July 2020.
Early music performance and features from the UK and around the world.
Published on Sunday, 12th July 2020.
Hannah French explores two settings of the ancient Greek tale, Hercules at the Crossroads.
Published on Sunday, 21st June 2020.
Music from an intriguing 18th-century opera-composing competition, The Judgement of Paris.
Published on Wednesday, 10th June 2020.
Celebrating the cultural contribution of black people in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2020.
Simon Desbruslais explores some early examples of trumpets in Oxford's Bate Collection.
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2020.
Hannah French talks to Masaaki and Masato Suzuki about 30 years of Bach Collegium Japan.
Published on Sunday, 9th February 2020.
Hannah French is joined by members of Stile Antico to explore festive choral music
Published on Sunday, 22nd December 2019.
Hannah French and violinist Adrian Chandler chat about 25 years of La Serenissima.
Published on Sunday, 10th November 2019.
Lucie Skeaping explores early music that evokes stormy weather and extreme climates.
Published on Saturday, 12th October 2019.
A remarkable early 16th-Century French composer, compared solely to Josquin des Prez.
Published on Sunday, 6th October 2019.
Hannah French and guests explore the music and culture of Al-Andalus.
Published on Sunday, 29th September 2019.
An exploration of Thoinot Arbeau's 16th-century dancing manual Orchesographie.
Published on Sunday, 15th September 2019.
Lucie Skeaping talks to the director of the Chapel Royal, Joseph McHardy.
Published on Sunday, 1st September 2019.
The life and works of 16th-century French composer Claude Le Jeune.
Published on Sunday, 4th August 2019.
The history of puppets in opera, with musician and director Thomas Guthrie.
Published on Sunday, 30th June 2019.
An exploration of Schutz's 26 psalm settings, published 400 years ago.
Published on Sunday, 23rd June 2019.
A profile of 18th-century French violinist and composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain.
Published on Sunday, 19th May 2019.
The life and legacy of the 16th-century musician and polymath, Edward Herbert
Published on Sunday, 12th May 2019.
An exploration of the lives and music of a musical C17th dynasty - the Gibbons family.
Published on Sunday, 28th April 2019.
A profile of the astonishing 17th-century singer and composer, Barbara Strozzi.
Published on Sunday, 10th March 2019.
Florilegium's Ashley Solomon looks at the life and music of Frederick the Great.
Published on Sunday, 3rd March 2019.
The extraordinary life and music of Johann Christoph Pepusch.
Published on Sunday, 3rd February 2019.
Sophie Yates is at the Fitzwilliam Museum exploring a priceless collection of manuscripts.
Published on Sunday, 27th January 2019.
Lucie Skeaping explores Alessandro Scarlatti’s relationship with the city of Rome.
Published on Sunday, 13th January 2019.
Harry Christophers, founder of The Sixteen, celebrates the choir's 40th birthday.
Published on Sunday, 6th January 2019.
Hannah French explores the lives and music of three 18th-century Catalonian brothers.
Published on Sunday, 30th December 2018.
Lucie Skeaping with music for the broken consort, the dance band in Elizabethan times.
Published on Sunday, 2nd December 2018.
Lucie Skeaping, Sam Barrett and Ben Bagby on Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy.
Published on Sunday, 25th November 2018.
Musical fireworks from Handel, Corelli, Bach and Rameau.
Published on Sunday, 4th November 2018.
An exploration of Couperin's remarkable vocal music for Holy Week - his Lecons de Tenebres
Published on Sunday, 28th October 2018.
Countertenor Iestyn Davies marks the 450th anniversary of composer Philip Rosseter.
Published on Sunday, 21st October 2018.
A look at the mysterious world of possession: witchcraft, demons, sorcery and madness.
Published on Sunday, 7th October 2018.
Musical journey into the mystery of possession: ecstasy, trances, spider bites and animism
Published on Sunday, 30th September 2018.
Hannah French explores The Western Wind, a song that inspired many 16th-century masses.
Published on Sunday, 9th September 2018.
Hannah French on the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Handel's Acis and Galatea.
Published on Sunday, 12th August 2018.
Hannah French tells the tale of two printers: Roger in Amsterdam and Walsh in London.
Published on Sunday, 1st July 2018.
Robert Hollingworth looks at Orazio Vecchi's 1594 madrigal comedy L'Amfiparnaso.
Published on Sunday, 24th June 2018.
Lucie Skeaping and guests discuss the musical tradition of the Hanseatic League.
Published on Sunday, 3rd June 2018.
Hannah French looks at JS and CPE Bach's works celebrating the Feast of the Ascension.
Published on Sunday, 13th May 2018.
Lucie Skeaping presents a musical exploration of the Greek myth of Ariadne in early music.
Published on Sunday, 6th May 2018.
Lucie Skeaping talks to harpsichordist Carole Cerasi about the keyboard music of Couperin.
Published on Sunday, 29th April 2018.
Lucie Skeaping profiles the neglected 18th-century Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.
Published on Sunday, 22nd April 2018.
Hannah French looks at Rameau's influence on Debussy, as shown by his 'Hommage a Rameau'.
Published on Sunday, 18th March 2018.
Lucie Skeaping looks at the life and legacy of 18th Century Jewish salon hostess Sara Levy
Published on Sunday, 4th March 2018.
Lucie Skeaping looks at the life and music of 16th-century composer John Wilbye.
Published on Sunday, 25th February 2018.
The war of two 18C London opera companies - the Royal Academy & the Opera of the Nobility.
Published on Sunday, 18th February 2018.
Lucie Skeaping looks at Couperin's four suites of chamber music - Les Concerts Royaux.
Published on Sunday, 4th February 2018.
Lucie Skeaping talks to Prof Armand D'Angour about the music and poetry of ancient Greece.
Published on Sunday, 28th January 2018.
Hannah French with music for Les 24 violons du Roi - famed throughout 17th-century Europe.
Published on Sunday, 14th January 2018.
Dame Emma Kirkby shares some memories of singing Bach alongside her favourite recordings.
Published on Sunday, 24th December 2017.
Lucie Skeaping looks at the operatic output of Georg Philipp Telemann.
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2017.
Lucie Skeaping introduces music from the court of Catherine the Great in Russia.
Published on Monday, 13th November 2017.
Lucie Skeaping talks to William Lyons about 30 years of the Dufay Collective.
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2017.
Hannah French on Telemann's Paris Quartets, marking the 250th anniversary of his death.
Published on Sunday, 22nd October 2017.
Lucie Skeaping with music surrounding Queen Mary I's 'phantom pregnancy' of 1555.
Published on Sunday, 1st October 2017.
Lucie Skeaping, Bojan Cicic and Michael Talbot discuss the Italian composer Carbonelli.
Published on Sunday, 24th September 2017.
Hannah French looks at the music composed by Bach around his arrival in Cothen in 1717.
Published on Sunday, 17th September 2017.
Lucie Skeaping talks to Zak Ozmo about his project based on old Portuguese love songs.
Published on Sunday, 13th August 2017.
Harpsichordist Sophie Yates visits Westwood Manor in Wiltshire.
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2017.
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of the York Early Music Festival Young Artists' Contest
Published on Sunday, 30th July 2017.
Hannah French delves into the history and musical detail of Handel's Water Music.
Published on Sunday, 2nd July 2017.
Hannah French explores the vibrant early music scene in Montreal.
Published on Sunday, 25th June 2017.
Canaletto paintings in the context of Venetian music of the period.
Published on Sunday, 18th June 2017.
Lucie Skeaping explores Monteverdi's sacred music collection Selva Morale e Spirituale.
Published on Sunday, 14th May 2017.
Lucie Skeaping explores music written by Catholic composers after the Reformation.
Published on Sunday, 7th May 2017.
Lucie Skeaping with pre-Reformation music, by Issac, Senfl, Josquin and Hans Sachs.
Published on Sunday, 30th April 2017.
Hannah French explores the life and music of Swedish composer Johan Helmich Roman.
Published on Sunday, 23rd April 2017.
Lucie Skeaping presents music associated with Mary Magdalen.
Published on Sunday, 16th April 2017.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
Published on Sunday, 26th March 2017.
Lucie Skeaping profiles I Fagiolini in conversation with director Robert Hollingworth.
Published on Sunday, 5th March 2017.
William Lyons celebrates the life and work of early music specialist David Munrow.
Published on Sunday, 19th February 2017.
Lucie Skeaping marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of English composer Thomas Campion
Published on Sunday, 12th February 2017.
Hannah French explores in depth Bach's Four Orchestral Suites.
Published on Monday, 30th January 2017.
Lucie Skeaping marks the 350th anniversary of Italian composer Antonio Lotti's birth.
Published on Sunday, 8th January 2017.
Lucie Skeaping introduces a programme of early music associated with the city of Vienna.
Published on Sunday, 1st January 2017.
Lucie Skeaping hears from contemporary composers about the influence of early music.
Published on Sunday, 20th November 2016.
Fiona Talkington on the continuing fascination with the life and works of Carlo Gesualdo.
Published on Sunday, 6th November 2016.
Fiona Talkington explores the life and music of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de St-Georges.
Published on Sunday, 23rd October 2016.
Lucie Skeaping is joined by studio guests to discuss the future of the early music scene.
Published on Sunday, 16th October 2016.
Lucie Skeaping and guests discuss how Radio 3 helped to support the early music movement.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2016.
Hannah French talks to members of Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra.
Published on Sunday, 18th September 2016.
Hannah French explores the tradition of Tafelmusik: music performed around tables.
Published on Sunday, 11th September 2016.
Hannah French presents a profile of the influential Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore.
Published on Sunday, 7th August 2016.
Hannah French visits New York to discover the city's vibrant early music scene.
Published on Sunday, 3rd July 2016.
Published on Sunday, 26th June 2016.
Lucie Skeaping looks at the history of Giulio Cesare, one of Handel’s most enduring operas
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2016.
Robert Hollingworth presents recordings by the BBC Singers of motets from the Medici Codex
Published on Sunday, 5th June 2016.
Harpsichordist Sophie Yates explores the life and music of Johann Jakob Froberger.
Published on Sunday, 15th May 2016.
Flautist Ashley Solomon talks to Lucie Skeaping about 25 years of the ensemble Florilegium
Published on Sunday, 1st May 2016.
Dance historian Barbara Segal joins Lucie Skeaping to discuss Renaissance Terpsichore.
Published on Wednesday, 20th April 2016.
Baroque dance specialist Philippa Waite explores the different styles of various dances.
Lucie Skeaping features composers active at the court of Mannheim in the late 18th century
Published on Sunday, 17th April 2016.
A profile of the blind Spanish Renaissance organist and composer Antonio de Cabezon.
Published on Sunday, 3rd April 2016.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Tudor composer John Sheppard.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2016.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of the composer Francesco Scarlatti.
Stevie Wishart presents a special New Year New Music programme.
Published on Sunday, 3rd January 2016.
Lucie Skeaping introduces music composed by Bach for 27 December.
Published on Sunday, 27th December 2015.
Sophie Yates talks to Benjamin Narvey about the relationship between lutes harpsichords.
Published on Sunday, 25th October 2015.
Bach's secular wedding cantata Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten, sung by Carolyn Sampson.
Published on Sunday, 18th October 2015.
Lucie Skeaping investigates the musical world of the Huguenot composer Jean Servin.
Published on Sunday, 11th October 2015.
Fiona Talkington presents a profile of violinist Bjarte Eike and his group Barokksolistene
Published on Sunday, 4th October 2015.
Lucie Skeaping is joined by Owen Rees to profile Renaissance composer Duarte Lobo.
Published on Sunday, 6th September 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores the music scene in and around Newcastle in the 18th century.
Published on Friday, 17th July 2015.
Lucie Skeaping discovers the delights of medieval dance with choreographer Darren Royston.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2015.
Exploring a concert series which lit up London's concert life after the death of Handel.
Published on Wednesday, 29th April 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores Artaserse, Metastasio's libretto about Artaxerxes King of Persia.
Published on Sunday, 12th April 2015.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the career of British tenor Nigel Rogers.
Published on Sunday, 29th March 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores the mysteries of Renaissance polyphony with Peter Phillips.
Published on Sunday, 15th March 2015.
Lucie Skeaping and Laurie Stras profile the life and music of composer Barbara Strozzi.
Published on Sunday, 8th March 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and musical of 17th-century composer Louis Couperin.
Published on Sunday, 1st March 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores the music of 18th- and early 19th-century Cuba.
Published on Sunday, 22nd February 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of the baroque violinist Johann Georg Pisendel.
Published on Sunday, 8th February 2015.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Viennese composer Georg Christoph Wagenseil.
Published on Sunday, 1st February 2015.
Lucie Skeaping surveys the musical legacy of the Middle East's influence on early music.
Published on Sunday, 25th January 2015.
Sophie Yates presents a profile of French harpsichordist and composer Jacques Duphly.
Published on Sunday, 18th January 2015.
Lucie Skeaping visits Hampton Court Palace to explore music during King Edward VI's reign.
Published on Sunday, 11th January 2015.
Lucie Skeaping visits the Scilly Isles to learn about the 18th-century singer Ann Cargill.
Published on Sunday, 4th January 2015.
Lucie Skeaping investigates the ancient musical tradition of wassailing.
Published on Sunday, 28th December 2014.
Another chance to hear Catherine Bott's interview with the late Christopher Hogwood.
Published on Sunday, 21st December 2014.
Catherine Bott presents a profile of Bach's eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann.
Published on Sunday, 14th December 2014.
David Fallows talks to Lucie Skeaping about music in Italy in the time of Boccaccio.
Published on Sunday, 7th December 2014.
Clare Salaman explores forgotten instruments that were once part of musical life.
Published on Sunday, 30th November 2014.
Lucie Skeaping focuses on Frans Bruggen's career as a conductor.
Published on Sunday, 23rd November 2014.
Recorder player Piers Adams reflects on Frans Bruggen's career as a recorder virtuoso.
Published on Sunday, 16th November 2014.
Piers Adams celebrates CPE Bach's 300th anniversary year with a visit to Hamburg.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd October 2014.
Lucie Skeaping presents a tribute to conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood.
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2014.
Lucie Skeaping and conductor Stephen Rice explore the music of Pierre de Manchicourt.
Published on Sunday, 5th October 2014.
Lucie Skeaping investigates the music of 18th-century Birmingham.
Published on Sunday, 14th September 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores the origins of klezmer with musicologist Dr Alexander Knapp.
Published on Sunday, 7th September 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores how the bassoon developed from early curtals, dulcians and bajons.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd September 2014.
Sophie Yates explores Rameau's dance music in his theatrical works.
Published on Sunday, 17th August 2014.
Clare Salaman on recent developments in historically-informed performance in early music.
Published on Sunday, 10th August 2014.
Exploring the music and entertainments put on for Philip V of Spain in Naples in 1702.
Published on Sunday, 20th July 2014.
Sophie Yates visits the Russell Collection to play harpsichords from the time of Rameau.
Published on Sunday, 13th July 2014.
Piers Adams visits Charlottenburg, the palace of King Frederick the Great.
Published on Wednesday, 9th July 2014.
Lucie Skeaping on the life and music of English 16th-century composer Robert Fayrfax.
Published on Tuesday, 1st July 2014.
A look at the career of composer Guillaume Dufay.
Published on Sunday, 1st June 2014.
Charles Burney's 18th-century musical travels through Germany and The Netherlands.
Published on Sunday, 25th May 2014.
Lucie Skeaping talks to members of the Hilliard Ensemble and introduces their recordings.
Published on Sunday, 11th May 2014.
Catherine Bott visits Bath to mark the bicentenary of the death of Venanzio Rauzzini.
Published on Sunday, 4th May 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of London-based composer Carl Friedrich Abel.
Published on Sunday, 27th April 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores some of William Hogarth's pictures and their references to music.
Published on Sunday, 20th April 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores music from Gluck's operatic masterpiece Iphigenie en Tauride.
Published on Sunday, 6th April 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and work of violinist-composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli.
Published on Sunday, 30th March 2014.
Lucie Skeaping discusses composers who lived and worked in Salzburg before Mozart's time.
Published on Sunday, 23rd March 2014.
Lucie Skeaping delves into Rameau's comic masterpiece Platee.
Published on Sunday, 16th March 2014.
Piers Adams marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of CPE Bach.
Published on Sunday, 9th March 2014.
Multi-instrumentalist Clare Salaman explores a once-popular instrument: the nyckelharpa.
Published on Sunday, 2nd March 2014.
Lucie Skeaping talks to Andrew Carwood, director of the Cardinall's Musick.
Published on Sunday, 23rd February 2014.
Lucie Skeaping focuses on JS Bach's last great masterpiece, The Art of Fugue
Published on Sunday, 16th February 2014.
Lucie Skeaping traces the schoolboy years of Henry Purcell.
Published on Sunday, 9th February 2014.
Lucie Skeaping presents recordings of music by the 13th-century European composer Perotin.
Published on Sunday, 2nd February 2014.
The European Union Baroque Orchestra plays music by Bach, Rameau and Leclair in Salford.
Published on Sunday, 19th January 2014.
Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny talks about two of the performers who inspired her.
Published on Sunday, 12th January 2014.
Lucie Skeaping explores the story of German virtuoso violinist Thomas Baltzar.
Published on Sunday, 5th January 2014.
Emma Kirkby introduces seasonal music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque.
Published on Sunday, 29th December 2013.
Lucie Skeaping and chef Clarissa Dickson Wright talk about Handel's love of food.
Published on Sunday, 22nd December 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of 17th-century composer Thomas Ravenscroft.
Published on Sunday, 15th December 2013.
Lucie Skeaping celebrates the 40th birthday of the Academy of Ancient Music.
Published on Sunday, 8th December 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the relationship between Rameau and his main patron.
Published on Sunday, 1st December 2013.
Peter Phillips talks to Lucie Skeaping about directing the Tallis Scholars for 40 years.
Published on Sunday, 24th November 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the Lutheran chorale in German Baroque music.
Published on Sunday, 10th November 2013.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas.
Published on Sunday, 3rd November 2013.
Lucie Skeaping talks to musicologist Ian Gammie about the life of Charles Burney.
Published on Sunday, 27th October 2013.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the harpsichord in film scores.
Published on Sunday, 20th October 2013.
Lucie Skeaping introduces a diverse selection of early music inspired by Greek mythology.
Published on Sunday, 13th October 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores Telemann's orchestral suite Hamburger Ebb' und Fluth.
Published on Sunday, 6th October 2013.
Catherine Bott looks at the lesser-known vocal and choral music of Domenico Scarlatti.
Published on Sunday, 29th September 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the story and the soundtrack of the 1994 film Farinelli.
Published on Saturday, 21st September 2013.
Catherine Bott presents an exploration of how early music has featured in mainstream film.
Published on Saturday, 14th September 2013.
Catherine Bott and Professor Glenn Watkins talk about the controversial life of Gesualdo.
Published on Sunday, 8th September 2013.
Donald Greig talks to Catherine Bott about the music in his new novel Time Will Tell.
Published on Saturday, 31st August 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life of 16th-century madrigalist Jacques Arcadelt.
Published on Sunday, 25th August 2013.
Catherine Bott presents a profile of German composer and organist Matthias Weckmann.
Published on Sunday, 18th August 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the beginnings of music in Notre Dame in Paris.
Published on Saturday, 10th August 2013.
Emma Kirkby and Jacob Heringman discuss Dowland's lute songs with Lucie Skeaping.
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2013.
Music by 17th-century Italian composer and virtuoso violinist Giuseppe Torelli.
Published on Saturday, 27th July 2013.
Lucie Skeaping celebrates the life and music of Jacques-Martin Hotteterre 'Le Romain'.
Published on Saturday, 20th July 2013.
Lucie Skeaping recreates a possible day in the life of King Louis XIV.
Published on Saturday, 6th July 2013.
Lucie Skeaping chooses music to accompany the National Gallery's Vermeer exhibition.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2013.
Lucie Skeaping and David Skinner consider music that might have been heard by Richard III.
Published on Saturday, 22nd June 2013.
Catherine Bott presents a comprehensive profile of the composer William Byrd.
Published on Saturday, 15th June 2013.
David McGuinness explores the music which came from the Court of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Published on Saturday, 8th June 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores music from the English royal courts, from Henry VIII to George III
Published on Saturday, 1st June 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the gardens of Cardinal Ippolito II's Villa d'Este.
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2013.
Lucie Skeaping looks at the real lives of the Mastersingers immortalised by Wagner.
Published on Sunday, 19th May 2013.
Catherine Bott talks to David Wulstan, founder of the pioneering Clerkes of Oxenford.
Published on Saturday, 11th May 2013.
Lucie Skeaping enters the musical world of the great French painter Antoine Watteau.
Published on Saturday, 4th May 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the music of Andre Campra from his tenure at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Published on Sunday, 28th April 2013.
Lucie Skeaping profiles celebrated early wind ensemble Les haulz et les bas.
Published on Saturday, 20th April 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 with music by Handel.
Published on Saturday, 13th April 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the music associated with the medieval texts of the Carmina Burana
Published on Sunday, 7th April 2013.
Catherine Bott explores the development of the Baroque music of eastern Europe.
Published on Saturday, 23rd March 2013.
For Baroque Spring, Catherine Bott focuses on gods and monsters in Monteverdi's operas.
Published on Monday, 18th March 2013.
Exploring the relationship between Jean-Baptiste Lully and his King - Louis XIV.
Published on Saturday, 9th March 2013.
Catherine Bott explores Telemann's ability to absorb and excel at varied musical styles.
Published on Saturday, 2nd March 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the Marian hymn Salve Regina.
Published on Sunday, 24th February 2013.
Lucie Skeaping on the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V, Elector Palatine.
Published on Saturday, 16th February 2013.
Catherine Bott visits Handel House to learn about Handel's librettist, Charles Jennens.
Published on Saturday, 9th February 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Henry Purcell's composer cousin, Daniel.
Published on Sunday, 3rd February 2013.
Lucie Skeaping considers the film 'Tous Les Matins du Monde'.
Published on Sunday, 27th January 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the Accademia di Arcadia, a 17th-century literary academy.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2013.
Catherine Bott explores some of the more curious instruments of the baroque era.
Published on Saturday, 12th January 2013.
Catherine Bott looks at composers who worked at the court of Christian IV of Denmark.
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2013.
A look at one of the earliest sources of English medieval music the Trinity Carol Roll.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd January 2013.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and work of Spanish composer Cristobal de Morales.
Published on Saturday, 15th December 2012.
Catherine Bott on the life and musical settings of the work of Italian poet Torquato Tasso
Published on Sunday, 9th December 2012.
Catherine Bott introduces a selection of early music for Advent.
Published on Sunday, 2nd December 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores the art of the lullaby and its inspiration to early music.
Published on Sunday, 25th November 2012.
Catherine Bott talks to vocalist, harpist and founder of Sequentia Benjamin Bagby.
Published on Saturday, 17th November 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the Muiderkring, a group of 17th century Dutch cultural figures.
Published on Sunday, 11th November 2012.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of the baroque group Florilegium with Ashley Solomon.
Published on Saturday, 3rd November 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and works of composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini.
Published on Sunday, 28th October 2012.
The development of the piano, including instruments for which Beethoven and Haydn wrote.
Published on Wednesday, 17th October 2012.
Lucie Skeaping charts the piano's the progression from its origins in Florence.
Published on Saturday, 13th October 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of composer and pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek.
Published on Sunday, 7th October 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores Louis XIV's 1683 competition to find his four new chapel composers
Published on Monday, 1st October 2012.
Catherine Bott and Fiona Maddocks explore the life and music of Hildegard of Bingen.
Published on Monday, 24th September 2012.
Catherine Bott presents a portrait of Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler.
Published on Monday, 10th September 2012.
Harpsichordist and conductor Harry Bicket talks to Catherine Bott about his career.
Published on Monday, 3rd September 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the life and music of 18th-century composer Baldassare Galuppi.
Published on Monday, 27th August 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of FW Zachow, famous as Handel's only teacher.
Published on Monday, 20th August 2012.
Radio 3's programmes exploring early developments in the musical world.
Published on Monday, 13th August 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores Rameau's multi-faceted music for solo keyboard.
Published on Monday, 23rd July 2012.
Catherine Bott on the life and work of 17th-century harpist and copyist Robert ap Huw.
Published on Monday, 16th July 2012.
Exploring Notker the Stammerer and the Abbey of St Gall's role in the development of chant
Published on Monday, 9th July 2012.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 16th-century German composer Michael Praetorius.
Published on Monday, 2nd July 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the musical life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Published on Monday, 25th June 2012.
Catherine Bott talks to Owen Rees about the musical legacy of King Joao IV of Portugal.
Published on Monday, 18th June 2012.
Lucie Skeaping presents an exploration of Bach's family tree.
Published on Monday, 11th June 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the early music movement in Britain in the 1950s.
Published on Monday, 4th June 2012.
Catherine Bott celebrates the life and work of pioneering countertenor Alfred Deller.
Published on Monday, 28th May 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores the 'stylus fantasticus' genre of baroque music.
Published on Monday, 21st May 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the many vocal compositions by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.
Published on Monday, 14th May 2012.
Catherine Bott explores some of Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of musicians.
Published on Monday, 7th May 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores music-making in Prague, with works by Mozart, Brixi and Gluck.
Published on Monday, 30th April 2012.
Lucie Skeaping profiles Philadelphia-based Renaissance wind ensemble Piffaro.
Published on Monday, 23rd April 2012.
Catherine Bott explores music inspired by the famous 17th-century play Il Pastor Fido.
Published on Wednesday, 18th April 2012.
Concluding the Early Music Show’s journey through the musical alphabet with letters N-Z.
Published on Monday, 2nd April 2012.
A whistle-stop tour of the alphabet according to Early Music. In Part 1: the letters A-M
Published on Monday, 26th March 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores the time Johann Sebastian Bach spent working as cantor in Leipzig.
Published on Monday, 19th March 2012.
Harpist Andrew-Lawrence King talks to Catherine Bott about the late Montserrat Figueras.
Published on Monday, 12th March 2012.
Lucie Skeaping traces the history and development of the dance-based form passacaglia.
Published on Monday, 5th March 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores Polish music, introducing Pekiel, Lilius, Zielinski and Dlugoraj.
Published on Monday, 27th February 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the life and music of Spanish prodigy Francisco Guerrero.
Published on Monday, 20th February 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the history of the Hanseatic League and its impact in the Baltic.
Published on Monday, 13th February 2012.
Catherine Bott considers what life was like in a cathedral choir in the late 16th century.
Published on Monday, 6th February 2012.
Lucie Skeaping and Berta Joncus discuss the colourful 18th-century soprano Kitty Clive.
Published on Monday, 30th January 2012.
Lucie Skeaping discusses the musicians of Frederick the Great's court.
Published on Monday, 23rd January 2012.
Lucie Skeaping presents music by members of the Ferrabosco family.
Published on Monday, 16th January 2012.
Catherine Bott explores the music of the students of William Byrd.
Published on Monday, 9th January 2012.
Lucie Skeaping examines the life and works of composer and teacher Nicola Porpora.
Published on Monday, 2nd January 2012.
Lucie Skeaping explores baroque Christmas music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
Published on Monday, 26th December 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the originations of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
Published on Monday, 19th December 2011.
Catherine Bott explores one of Guillaume de Machaut's extraordinary works, Le voir dit.
Published on Monday, 12th December 2011.
A profile of Maria Barbara, Portuguese infanta and Spanish queen and music she inspired.
Published on Monday, 5th December 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the work of 18th century Scottish composer James Oswald.
Published on Monday, 28th November 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of Salamone Rossi, who wrote for the synagogue.
Published on Monday, 21st November 2011.
Catherine Bott reflects on the work of the pioneering symphonists of the 18th century.
Published on Monday, 14th November 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the origins of the symphonie, for Radio 3's season on symphonies.
Published on Monday, 7th November 2011.
Catherine Bott and Andrew Parrott discuss the complex process of reconstructions.
Published on Monday, 31st October 2011.
Catherine Bott explores the musical legacy of King Dinis I of Portugal.
Published on Monday, 24th October 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and musical passions of Isabella d'Este.
Published on Monday, 17th October 2011.
Catherine Bott takes a look at the 16th-century Scottish Wode Psalter.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and work of the great Tudor composer Peter Philips.
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2011.
Lucie Skeaping discusses Shakespeare's musical collaborator Robert Johnson.
Published on Monday, 26th September 2011.
Catherine Bott traces the legacy of King George III. Music by Handel, Purcell, Steffani.
Published on Monday, 19th September 2011.
Catherine Bott traces the legacy of King George III. Featuring Handel, JC Bach and Mozart.
Lucie Skeaping and Jeremy Barlow explore the music of William Boyce.
Published on Monday, 12th September 2011.
Catherine Bott in conversation with an Early music pioneer, the late Gustav Leonhardt.
Published on Monday, 5th September 2011.
Catherine Bott explores the history of the Collegium Musicum in Germany.
Published on Monday, 29th August 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores Vivaldi's collection of violin concertos L'Estro Armonico, Op 3.
Published on Monday, 22nd August 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the lives and work of Francesca and Settimia Caccini.
Published on Monday, 15th August 2011.
Lucie Skeaping looks back on the life and music of Jacobean prodigy Orlando Gibbons.
Published on Monday, 8th August 2011.
Catherine Bott explores the life and music written for King Henry IV of France.
Published on Monday, 1st August 2011.
Catherine Bott presents a profile of Spanish Renaissance composer Tomas Luis de Victoria.
Published on Monday, 25th July 2011.
Lucie Skeaping on the background and music to Handel's 'Easter Oratorio', La Resurrezione.
Published on Monday, 18th July 2011.
Catherine Bott talks to Tony Wheeler about the 17th-century traveller Thomas Coryate.
Published on Sunday, 10th July 2011.
Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of 18th-century composer Niccolo Jommelli.
Published on Saturday, 21st May 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores Purcell's semi-opera, The Fairy Queen.
Published on Saturday, 7th May 2011.
Lucie Skeaping presents music from the 18th century Russian imperial court.
Published on Saturday, 2nd April 2011.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of French composer Henri Desmarest.
Published on Saturday, 12th June 2010.
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and music of the Flemish composer Clemens non Papa.
Published on Saturday, 17th April 2010.
Exploring the extraordinary story of 11th-century French monk Ademar de Chabannes.
Published on Sunday, 11th October 2009.
Lucie Skeaping visits the Baroque theatre at Cesky Krumlov castle in the Czech Republic.
Published on Sunday, 15th March 2009.
Lucie Skeaping explores Acis and Galatea, one of Handel's most popular works.
Published on Sunday, 13th April 2008.
