Wednesdays at 10:00 pm
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.
Sonate italiane
Violinist Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in Italian sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi, Geminiani, Tartini, Veracini and Locatelli. Recorded live in concert July 22, 2023, in the extraordinary acoustics of Świdnica, Poland’s Church of Peace, the world’s largest wooden Baroque church and a Unesco World heritage site, as part of the International Bach Festival, founded in 2005 and held each year ...
Napoli illustrissima
Violinist Eva Saladin, cellist Daniel Rosin, and harpsichordist Johannes Keller present works by composers who lived or worked in Naples in the 18th century.
Apollo’s Fire & Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610
Jeannette Sorrell, founder and director of Apollo's Fire, describes Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers as "daringly avant-garde...”
