Praetorius, Gabrieli, and Grandi: EMN 24 November

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A concert from the Prague Early Music Festival featuring lavish music for voices and instruments from early baroque Germany and northern Italy. Praetorius's setting of Psalm 31 from his exuberantly titled 'Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica (1619)' is followed by movements from a mass setting by Alessandro Grandi, a one-time assistant to Monteverdi at St Mark's in Venice. He died young but he was once one of the most popular composers of his day and his works were published throughout Italy, Germany and the Low Countries and continued to be reprinted long after his death.

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bmbm

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Sorry to keep on but whilst it’s only half an hour this programme is almost worth half a day. Just music with a few words from the presenter and almost always includes a composer or two whose names don’t usually come up anywhere else (maybe apart from TTN). And all live recordings. All the same, I hope this is not meant to be a permanent replacement of Early Music Late.