Italian Renaissance and Isabella d'Este.

[doversoul1]

Saturday
The First Lady of the World
Lucie Skeaping explores the life and musical passions of one of the most important and influential women of the Italian Renaissance, Isabella d'Este. Featuring music from, amongst others, Ockeghem, Josquin, Cara and Tromboncino

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015ygnf

Looks like another good EMS programme.

Sunday
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Catherine Bott introduces highlights of a concert recorded at the Grand Hall of the Konzerthaus in Vienna, given by the Venice Baroque Orchestra under the ensemble's founder and conductor Andrea Marcon. They are joined by the French coloratura soprano Patricia Petibon in repertoire by Handel, Scarlatti and Tarquinio Merula

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015ygrl

A fairly standard selection but the more the better all the same.

[ardcarp]

Just LA-ed the Isabella d'Este programme. Wonderful! Superb musical examples... sopranos Carolyn Sampson and Claire Wilkinson in especially fine form.

[decantor]

Both programmes were over lunch, of course, and so I heard only snatches of what Lucie and Cate had to tell us. But the music on each day was more mouth-watering than any lunch I could imagine. Wonderful stuff - some of it by composers unknown to me. (The need to eat can sometimes be a bit of a bummer.) I must try to find time to LA - and I don't mean Lunch Again.