Baroque&Before

Wednesdays at 10:00 pm
Baroque&Before

A fresh feast of early music every week.

Join host Candice Agree for WFMT’s exciting weekly program of early music. Baroque&Before explores works written before 1750, featuring live concert recordings from some of the world’s most prestigious early music festivals, as well as commercially released recordings from WFMT’s vast library. From Russia to the Americas, from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean and Middle East, Candice presents internationally known artists on the early music scene, crafting a delightful mix of musicianship, music, and history.

Paradisi Porte: The Music of the Angels

November 6, 2024, 10:00 pm

Inspired by Hans Memling’s altarpiece for a Spanish nunnery, and using instruments built especially for this project, historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp and the female vocal ensemble Tiburtina join forces for a program focused on fifteenth-century monophonic chant and polyphonic pieces. Recorded live in concert July 16, 2024 in The Church of Our Lady of the Slavs of the Emmaus ...

Tempus mirabilium: Hopes & Dreams

November 13, 2024, 10:00 pm

Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková joins Capella de la Torre for a program of early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy celebrating an age of miracles. Recorded live in concert July 24, 2024 in the Church of St Simon and St Jude as part of Prague’s Summer Festivities of Early Music. Thanks to WFMT’s association with the European Broadcasting Union, ...

Zelenka’s Missa Omnium Sanctorum

November 20, 2024, 10:00 pm

Jan Dismas Zelenka was one of the most important composers of the Czech baroque. His Missa Omnium Sanctorum of 1741 is a monumental work full of virtuosity, brilliance, and carefully crafted and impressive fugues.

El Gran Teatro Del Mundo: The Lullists; German Baroque Music à la française

November 27, 2024, 10:00 pm

A program of “goût réuni,” or united taste, brings us the music of German composers inspired and influenced by the French style. Known as “Lullists” after Jean-Baptiste Lully, works Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Georg Muffat, and Georg Philipp Telemann are featured this week, presented by El Gran Teatro Del Mundo under the direction of Julio Caballero Pérez. Tonight’s program was ...