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Harmonia is a weekly program of early music produced at WFIU Public Media. In the podcast edition, our staff brings you featured new releases from the exciting world of early music.

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    Different Ways to Think About Early Music

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2023 7:00


    On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.

    Different Ways to Think About Early Music

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2023 7:00


    On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.

    Harmonia Uncut: Curious and Decadent

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2022 7:00


    We'll hear music of Francois Devienne, CPE Bach, and Frédéric Duvernoy performed in 1988 by Colin St. Martin and Richard Seraphinoff, who were students at the IU Early Music Institute at that time.

    Harmonia Uncut: Phantasm's Flights of Fantasy and Fugue

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2022 7:00


    We'll hear music from the viol consort Phantasm during their 1999 U.S. tour.

    Harmonia Uncut: Antic Faces

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 7:00


    Join us for arrangements of well-known Elizabethan tunes mixed with serious secular polyphony in this 2019 concert by the ensemble Antic Faces entitled "Joyne Hands - Elizabethan entertainments for mixed consort."

    Harmonia Uncut: Telemann Sandwich

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2021 7:00


    Here's a delicious Telemann sandwich filled with CPE Bach! (Hold the mayo and mustard.)

    Harmonia Uncut: "The Brade Bunch"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 7:00


    Head-banging viol consorts - really? YES! Join “The Brade Bunch” in Berkeley, CA in 2008 for some of the best music that has ever been.

    Harmonia Uncut: Thomas Binkley Remembered

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2021 7:00


    Thomas Binkley died in April of 1995, and in September of that year a large group of former students and colleagues gathered to remember him with his own favorite kind music-making—live performance.

    Harmonia Uncut: Naughty Notes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 7:00


    The year is 1983 and notes inégales are about to be heard for the first time in Recital Hall at the IU School of Music.

    Harmonia Uncut: Arrangements of Bach

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 7:00


    Judith Linsenberg has been living with her arrangements of Bach organ sonatas as trio sonatas for many years now, but we’re going to travel back to when she was getting to know the music for the first time.

    Harmonia Uncut: "Fourteenth-Century Chamber Music"

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 7:00


    What the heck is fourteenth century chamber music? Excerpts from a concert called “Fourteenth century chamber music” - performed by faculty of the Early Music Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1989.

    Harmonia Uncut: Get Binked!

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 7:00


    Thomas Binkley founded the Early Music Institute at IU School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana in 1980. We'll hear excerpts from the very first faculty performance.

    Harmonia Uncut: The Fifth of Six in the Seventh

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 7:00


    A performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam,” BWV 7, on February 26, 2017, in Bloomington, Indiana. It was the fifth of six cantatas in the seventh season of the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project.

    The Hilliard Ensemble in 1980

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2021 7:00


    We'll hear a performance from a 1980 cassette tape of the Hilliard Ensemble's first concert in NYC.

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    Harmonia Uncut: Legrenzi Suggests…  

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 7:00


    The UNT Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra present several different ways of performing the music, just as Giovanni Legrenzi suggests. Check it out!

    Harmonia Uncut: Old School, New Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 7:00


    Listen as Hebrew, Islam, and Christian traditions overlap and diverge as they spread around Europe and Asia, in a performance by ensemble Schola Antiqua.

    Harmonia Uncut: Sleepwalking in 17th-Century Paris...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2021 7:00


    The ensemble Sonnambula plays music from seventeenth-century France by Lully, Lalande, and more at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in NYC of September 2017. Join us!

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    Harmonia Uncut: Richard Davy's St. Matthew Passion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 7:00


    Let's hear some of Quire Cleveland's 2017 performance of the St. Matthew Passion by Renaissance composer Richard Davy.

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    Harmonia Uncut: Czech Out This Christmas Concert!

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 7:00


    Tempesta di Mare created a very unusual Christmas concert of Czech music, most of which was found in a bishop’s library in the Moravian Court in Kroměříž. Singers, strings, brass, winds, and organ join together for festive music of the season.

    Harmonia Uncut: Baroque in Texas

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2020 7:00


    Join us for excerpts from the concert “Hecho en Mexico” by Austin Baroque Orchestra.

    Parthenia, Dashon Burton, and King James

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2020 7:00


    Travel with us back through time to October 2016. We’re visiting St. Luke in the Fields Church in New York City for “King James and his Bible: a musical portrait,” a concert presented by the viol consort Parthenia with guest bass-baritone Dashon Burton.

    Harmonia Uncut: An Alchymical Transformation

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2020 7:00


    In January, 2020, Alchymy Viols underwent some friendly alchemy to become an ensemble of singers and instrumentalists perfect for the performance of Marc Antoine Charpentier’s 11th and final mass, first performed at the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, probably during the feast of the Assumption in 1699. We’ll hear some of that splendid mass and also Charpentier’s only Sonata among an oeuvre of well over 500 works.

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    Harmonia Uncut: Musique et Masqueray

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 7:00


    We'll hear excerpts from the Rose Ensemble's concert at the St. Thomas Aquinas Church in St. Paul in March of 2017. The concert comprised liturgical music composed in the style current in France in the seventeenth century, though not all the repertory is by French composers...

    Harmonia Uncut: Loftus and Lapin - Not a law firm!

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2020 7:00


    Harmonia Uncut brings you two performances from back in the time of concerts, one of Mozart from Gili Loftus, and one of Muffat from Matvey Lapin.

    Harmonia Uncut: Quire Cleveland Performs William Byrd

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 7:00


    Quire Cleveland performs music by William Byrd from a 2016 concert, “England’s Phoenix: William Byrd.”

    Harmonia Uncut: Les Voix Humaines and Dowland's Teares

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 7:00


    Les Voix Humaines and Nigel North, perform some very beautiful and unusual interpretations of John Dowland's Lacrimae, or Seaven Teares.

    Harmonia Uncut: Vajra Voices

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 7:00


    Vajra Voices, directed by Karen R. Clark, is a female vocal ensemble that sings medieval to modern music. On February 1, 2020 they gave a concert called “In a Medieval Garden” in Santa Cruz, California. We’re going to listen to them sing music of Guillaume de Machaut accompanied by guest artist and multi-instrumentalist Mary Springfels. Join us!

    Harmonia Uncut: Monteverdi Collab

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2020 7:00


    Add the Dark Horse Consort and the Chant Schola to the Green Mountain Project (in Italian, “green mountain” easily translates to “monte verdi” - just saying); gather in the Church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York City on January 3, 2019; stir well; and perform the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610. I wonder whether this is the first performance that uses all female cornetto players…

    Harmonia Uncut: Quaver

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 7:00


    In 2018, the viol consort Quaver performed a concert at the Viola da Gamba Society of America's conclave in North Carolina and surprised their listeners with some unexpected approaches to familiar music.

    Harmonia Uncut: Infusion Baroque

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2020 7:00


    Music from Infusion Baroque's performance in the 2017 Indianapolis Early Music Festival in a program that featured Italianate composers of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

    Harmonia Uncut: Impossible Historical Performances

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 7:00


    On this episode of Harmonia Uncut, we visit two lone musicians, one in Ohio and one in Berlin, already alone before the pandemic, recording themselves playing all the parts of their pieces. Tricky stuff!

    Familiarity and Freshness

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 7:00


    We'll hear excerpts from “The People’s Purcell” by Le Nef with Michael Slattery at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival’s opening concert of 2017.

    Harmonia Uncut: Elizabethan Enterprise

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 7:00


    Ah, time travel! Today’s podcast revisits Music before 1800 in New York City in January of 1979 to bring you excerpts from a concert of fifteenth century Italian music.

    Waltham Abbey 1993

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 7:00


    The Waltham Abbey Singers perform music of Thomas Tallis. 

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    Viols, Vinci & Vittoria

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 7:00


    Three strands are braided together into this episode of Harmonia Uncut: copies of viols from Lombardy performing music from Lombardy that sets spiritual sonnets written by the first published female poet.

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    Potpourri: Hair Shirts & Blisters on Fingers

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2020 7:00


    On today’s podcast, we’ll hear a trouvère song by Gace Brulé with voice and vielle by Aaron Cain and Joanna Blendulf. Then...ever heard of David Baudinger? You won’t forget the name after you hear this performance by viola da gamba player Joshua Keller.

    50 Shades of Baroque

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2020 7:00


    The supergroup 50 Shades of Baroque perform in a concert most intriguingly titled eponymously. We'll hear music by the Italian composer Antonio Caldara.

    Black Tulip and the Delights of Arcadia

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2020 7:00


    Ensemble Black Tulip in concert, celebrating the delights of Arcadia, including pastoral solo cantatas by Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti.

    Ensemble Alkemie Unites Music and Magic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2020 7:00


    We’ll hear some ‘Alkemical’ medieval songs and dance,

    Piffaro “Back before Bach”

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2020 7:00


    Excerpts from renowned renaissance band Piffaro's March 2018 Philadelphia concert.

    Father Vandini's Cello

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 7:00


    The 18th century Italian cellist, Antonio Vandini, was like his contemporary, Antonio Vivalidi, also a priest.

    Biber and Biber

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2019 7:00


    Music by Biber and Biber--father and son, Heinrich and Carl.

    Ein Feste Burg

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2017 7:00


    This October 31st marks half a millennium since the young priest, Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses that ushered in the Protestant Reformation.

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