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.
Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum
Twelfth-century mystic, writer, philosopher, and composer Hildegard channeled her unfaltering Christian faith through her music in the morality play Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues).
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.
Tears of Laughter, Laughter Through Tears
Few know how to express the rollercoaster of emotions in such a suggestive and multifaceted way as the Venetian Barbara Strozzi.
Grotesquerie in music of Seventeenth-century Rome
Concerto Romano brings us the complete range of high-Baroque musical drama: angels and demons, saints and sinners, in a variety of instrumental environments.
