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Harmonia for May 11, 2008
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Les Boreades of Montreal"
For the past sixteen years the French Canadian ensemble Les Boreades has brought audiences a fresh and exciting perspective on music of the baroque. Led by recorder and flute virtuoso Francis Colpron, this ensemble has made numerous recordings of vocal, chamber and orchestral music. From Boismortier to the Beatles, we'll get a formal introduction this week on Harmonia to one of Montreal's truly special ensembles, as well as listen to a new release entitled Music of the Sistine Chapel.
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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