Millennium of Music

April 6-8
Johann Gletle: Marienvesper: Some years back, we had the great pleasure of presenting the first recording of rare vocal pieces by the Bremgarten-born early Baroque composer Johann Melchior Gletle (1626-1683); the latest Musiques Suisses project gives us a reconstruction of his Vespers for the Blessed Virgin.

April 13-15
#08-16: 04/07/08—Ex Libris Doctoris Amerbachii: Music books collected by great humanist thinkers are a treasured window into the musical life of the Renaissance--this week, another Musiques Suisses project gives us music from the book of the great Basel legal philosopher (and music lover) Bonifacius Amerbach (1495-1562).

April 20-22
#08-17: 04/14/08—Canti Gregoriani: Another in the ongoing attempts to reconstruct the earliest sound of plainchant, using manuscripts from such famous Swiss sources as St. Gall and Einsiedln; the ensemble I Cantori della Turrita (founded in 1972) continues the distinguished history of chant recordings from Switzerland.

April 27-29
#08-18: 04/21/08—O Dulcis Amor : The Basel-based ensemble La Villanella shares vocal works by great women composers of the early Italian Baroque--some familiar, like Barbara Strozzi and Francesca Caccini, and some less-frequently heard, like Caterina Assandra and Vittoria Aleotti.