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Les Arts Florissants

  • Claudio Monteverdi as a young man, c. 1597. Artist unknown.
    The Life and Times of Monteverdi
    LuAnn Johnson
    Claudio Monteverdi’s long career spanned a period marked by big changes to the Italian musical landscape: transitions between Renaissance and Baroque aesthetics, the rise of the violin family, and the establishment of public opera, to name a few. Join Harmonia on a sonic journey through some of the musical places and spaces he inhabited.
  • We’ll compare a pair of “phythons/phitons” in the second half of the hour.
    Pairings
    LuAnn Johnson
    This week on Harmonia, we’ll hear two expressive, complex pairs of pieces from 14th- and 15th-century France—one a pair of ballades by Machaut and Franciscus, the other a pair of motets by Busnois and Ockeghem. Plus, our featured release pairs serious songs with drinking songs from 17th-century France.