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Harmonia for May 20, 2007
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Jordi Savall Part 1"
When Cervantes wrote Don Quixote, he mentioned a number of musical pieces and songs. Renowned Catalan viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall remarked that people of Cervantes' time would have "heard a soundtrack in their minds while reading." This was the inspiration for a new and fascinating recording project by Hesperion that features all the music referred to in Cervantes' Don Quixote. On Harmonia this week and next week, Jordi Savall will tell us more about this and many other recent recording projects.
From the transcendent sounds of Anonymous 4, to the sublime realm of Chant, to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia is drawing new listeners in unprecedented numbers to the world of Early Music.
Harmonia is a production of WFIU in Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University's prestigious School of Music and the largest Early Music Institute in North America; with additional technical support from KOHM at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. Bloomington's position as a center for Early Music research provides fertile ground for concert recordings and interviews with top performers and scholars in the field.
Indiana University's Thomas Binkley Archive of Early Music Recordings, an unmatched resource for rare, out-of-print, and historically important Early Music recordings, enriches Harmonia's musical offerings. Combining this unique collection of resources with commercial, private, and archival material, Harmonia host and producer Angela Mariani brings historically informed performance to today's listeners, adding evocative commentary to illustrate, inform, and entertain.
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