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.

Baroque Anatomy

November 11, 2026, 10:00 pm

Ottavio Dantone conducts Accademia Bizantina from the harpsichord in musical jewels of the Baroque era by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. Featuring Marcello Gatti playing the Baroque flute or “traversiere” and Alessandro Tampieri playing violin and viola d’amore. Tonight’s program was recorded live in concert February 7, 2026 at Aula Magna Università La Sapienza, ...

Jordi Savall: Works by Diego Ortiz & Joan Cererols

November 18, 2026, 10:00 pm

Works by two composers from Spain with a Neapolitan connection: Toledo-born composer and music theorist Diego Ortiz, and Catalan musician and Benedictine monk Joan Cererols.

Motets & Quartets

November 26, 2026, 10:00 pm

A program of Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, Johannes Bach, and Johann Sebastian Bach.