Countertenor Valer Sabadus: Il gusto italiano | WFMT Italy, the land of longing for Germans for centuries, Handel among them. Early music conductor Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in an exploration of “the Italian taste.” They...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Hungry for Vivaldi? Have you tried “il gusto italiano?” Handel did and was hooked. Join @voicecandy.bsky.social 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & countertenor Valer Sabadus. Squisito! www.wfmt.com/2025/10/29/c...

Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos | WFMT The title is French and sums it up: “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments,” as Bach himself called his famous concerto collection. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger and Frankfu...

Bach called them his “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments.” We know them as the Brandenburg Concertos. Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six. Also On Demand page, 30 days after the broadcast. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/22/b...

In the Patron's Shadow: Christophe Rousset in Works by Couperin | WFMT François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of th...

#EarlyMusicWednesday François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/15/i...

Bach: Mass in b minor | WFMT Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 2...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. 2nite, 10CT, Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704 & vocal soloists in this live concert recording from Prague’s Rudolfinum. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/08/b...

Sacred Bridges: Psalms of David | WFMT Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

#EarlyMusicWednesday The King’s Singers & Sarband bring us Psalms of David: songs of lament & joy & praise & glory in settings by Salamone Rossi, Claude Goudimel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck & Alî Ufkî. Join us tonight, 10CT on WFMT for “Baroque&Before with Candice Agree.” www.wfmt.com/2025/10/01/s...

Les chemins hébraïques du baroque | WFMT Passionate about Hebraic spiritual traditions, Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Selections from Marcello’s sett...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Benedetto Marcello, inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-c. Venice, set paraphrases of the Psalms of David. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before”on WFMT Chicago www.wfmt.com/2025/09/24/l...

The World of Ramon Llull | WFMT Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia, living at a time marked by the coexistence, not always peacefully, of the three Abrahamic religious cultu...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Jordi Savall explores 13th-century Ars antigua & the exchange of musical ideas among Jews, Muslims & Catholics of the High Middle Ages in “Ramon Llull: Times of Conquest, Dialogue & Exhortation.” Join me tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Corund Ensemble & Tomás Luis de Victoria | WFMT Known as the “Spanish Palestrina,” Tomás Luis de Victoria has been called the greatest of all Iberian composers.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. Swiss vocal ensemble Corund brings us sacred madrigals & the 1605 Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria, the greatest of all Iberian composers. ¡No te pierdas! www.wfmt.com/2025/09/10/c...

Profile: Jaap Schröder | WFMT We celebrate violinist Jaap Schröder, one of the first pioneers to present performances of baroque, and later, classical works, on period instruments.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Violinist & conductor Jaap Schröder was a pioneer of the historically-informed performance movement. Join me tonight at 10CT to enjoy surprisingly fresh interpretations of Bach, Vivaldi & Roman on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/09/03/j...

Tempus mirabilium: Hopes & Dreams | WFMT Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková joins Capella de la Torre for a program of early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy celebrating an age of miracles. Recorded live in concert Jul...

#EarlyMusicWednesday! Tonight, travel back to Prague's Summer Festivities of Early Music for a live concert of 17th century gems, featuring the wonderful Capella de la Torre ensemble. 10 pm CT. www.wfmt.com/2025/08/27/t...

Music of the Angels | WFMT Inspired by Hans Memling’s altarpiece for a Spanish nunnery, and using instruments built especially for this project, historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp and the female vocal ensemble Tibur...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Prague’s Early Music Festival: historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerpen & female vocal ensemble Tiburtina in 15th-c. monophonic chant and polyphonic hymns. Join Candice Agree tonight, 10CT on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/08/20/p...

Apollo's Fire & Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 | WFMT Jeannette Sorrell, founder and director of Apollo's Fire, describes Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers as "daringly avant-garde...”

#EarlyMusicWednesday Daringly avant-garde when Monteverdi wrote it some 415 years ago, his “Vespers for the Blessed Virgin” remains one of the greatest sacred works ever written. Join me to hear this glorious marvel on “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10CT on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/08/13/m...

La Follia with Ensemble 1700 | WFMT More than 150 composers have incorporated the La Follia theme into their own works. On this edition of Baroque&Before, Soprano Núria Rial joins Ensemble 1700, under the direction of recorder player Do...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Madness! Madness I tell you! La Follia! 1 melody, 11 composers with Ensemble 1700. Join me tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/08/06/l...

Jordi Savall: El Llibre Vermell de Montserrat | WFMT El Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, or the Red Book of Montserrat, is a 14th-century collection of devotional texts and music.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10 Central, The Red Book of Montserrat, a 14th-century collection of devotional texts and music for pilgrims making their way to the Montserrat Monastery. Join us for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/07/30/j...

Teresa Berganza: Early Music Repertory | WFMT We celebrate the artistic legacy of Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, who died May 13, 2022 at the age of 89.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, lauded for her interpretations of Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, and more, also excelled in baroque and renaissance music, the repertory we'll hear her in tonight at 10CT on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT

Codex Las Huelgas with Psallentes Ensemble | WFMT Mothers and wives are the roles traditionally assigned to women. For centuries, however, a large number of well-educated and privileged women — empresses, queens, nuns, aristocrats, and businesswomen ...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Female vocal ensemble Psallentes brings us anonymous works from the Codex Las Huelgas & Hildegard of Bingen’s Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula. Join me s tonight, 10CT for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/07/16/c...

Jordi Savall: Works by Diego Ortiz & Joan Cererols | WFMT Works by two composers from Spain with a Neapolitan connection: Toledo-born composer and music theorist Diego Ortiz, and Catalan musician and Benedictine monk Joan Cererols.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Hear 17th-century Catalan composer Joan Cererols’s rarely heard Neapolitan-influenced “Missa pro defunctis” tonight at 10CT on WFMT’s “Baroque&Before.” No t'ho perdis! Don’t miss it! www.wfmt.com/2025/07/09/j...

Lutenist & Guitarist Julian Bream | WFMT Along with Andrés Segovia, Bream is regarded as the most charismatic and influential classical guitarist of the 20th century.

#EarlyMusicWednesday “[T]he feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus,…there's nothing between you and the music.” Guitarist & lutenist Julian Bream’s on “Baroque&Before” tonight at 10CT on WFMT. Join us! www.wfmt.com/2025/07/02/c...

A Frescobaldi Musical Flower | WFMT A child prodigy born into a wealthy Ferraresi family, Girolamo Frescobaldi published his Fiori musicali in 1635. Close to 60 years old, these musical flowers are his only compositions devoted to churc...

From the Church of San Maurizio in Milan’s Monastero Maggiore, Canticum’s 8 male voices & Lorenzo Ghielmi, playing the 16th-century Gian Giacomo Antegnati organ, in musical flowers by Fresbobaldi. Join me tonight, 10CT for @BaroqueBefore on @WFMTclassical www.wfmt.com/2025/06/25/a...

A Portuguese Pilgrimage | WFMT On this week’s edition of Baroque&Before, Giulio Prandi leads the Ghislieri Chorus, Orchestra, and soloists in Mattutino de’ Morti by Davide Perez, born in Naples of Spanish heritage. The work, writte...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Giulio Prandi leads the Ghislieri Chorus, Orchestra & soloists in Naples-born Spaniard Davide Perez’s Mattutino de’ Morti, considered the most significant musical work of 18th century Portugal. Join us tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/06/18/a...

Arte dei Suonatori | WFMT Harpsichordist Marcin Świątkiewicz and Ensemble Arte dei Suonatori lead us on a fascinating journey through the diversity of the Baroque era, exploring Polish influences in works by Johann Sebastian B...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Stockholm’s Early Music Festival: Harpsichordist Marcin Świątkiewicz and Arte dei Suonatori explore the Polish influence in German baroque music. Join me 2nite, 10CT for WFMT’s “Baroque&Before.” www.wfmt.com/2025/06/11/a...

Sonate italiane | WFMT 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 o...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas of the Italian Baroque. Recorded live in concert in the world’s largest wooden Baroque church and a Unesco World heritage site. Join me tonight 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/06/04/s...

Sonate italiane | WFMT 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 o...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas of the Italian Baroque. Recorded live in concert in the world’s largest wooden Baroque church and a Unesco World heritage site. Join me tonight 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/06/04/s...

In the Patron's Shadow: Christophe Rousset in Works by Couperin | WFMT François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of th...

#EarlyMusicWednesday How to play the harpsichord: François Couperin told us how; Cristophe Rousset shows us how. Hope you can join us for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/05/28/i...

The Five Kingdoms of Mediæval Spain | WFMT Roman, Germanic, Byzantine, French, Arabic, and Jewish cultures all contributed to Spanish music.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Music from the 13-17th century Spain is an Iberian melting pot, its ingredients from Jewish, Roman, Germanic, Byzantine, French & Arabic cultures. Join me tonight, 10 Central for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/05/21/t...

Bach: Mass in b minor | WFMT Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 2...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Gregorian chant to the galant, Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. Hear this masterpiece, recorded live in concert in Prague’s Rudolfinum tonight, 10CT on “Baroque&Before” with Candice Agree on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/05/14/b...

Tempus mirabilium: Hopes & Dreams | WFMT Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková joins Capella de la Torre for a program of early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy celebrating an age of miracles. Recorded live in concert Jul...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková & Capella de la Torre celebrate an age of miracles with music from early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy. Join us tonight at 10 CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/05/07/t...

Handel in Rome | WFMT In July 1707, three works by Handel were performed in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome: Nisi Dominus and Dixit Dominus on 16 July, and Salve Regina on 19 July. The influential Colonna f...

#EarlyMusicWednesday July, 1707 was a very good month for Handel. I’ll share his accomplishments tonight at 10 CT on @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/04/30/h...

Codex Las Huelgas with Psallentes Ensemble | WFMT Mothers and wives are the roles traditionally assigned to women. For centuries, however, a large number of well-educated and privileged women — empresses, queens, nuns, aristocrats, and businesswomen ...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Female vocal group PSALLENTES treats us to mediæval treasures from the Codex de las Huelgas Hildegard of Bingen’s Chants for the Feast of Saint Ursula. Join them tonight, 10CT on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT... www.wfmt.com/2025/04/23/c...

Songs & Laments of the Sephardim | WFMT Baroque&Before celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt with a program of sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean.

#EarlyMusicWednesday 10th-16th century works from the Sephardic diaspora commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Join me tonight, 10 CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. Sentak-khadhra! www.wfmt.com/2025/04/09/s...