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The Early Music Show Episodes

  1. The Duke of Chandos

    Catherine Bott charts the rise and fall of James Brydges, a former patron of Handel.

  2. EBU: Ambronay Festival

    Highlights of a concert featuring the Choir of King's College, Cambridge performing Handel

  3. Music for Holy Saturday

    With settings of Lamentations and Tenebrae Responsories by Palestrina, Lobo and Gesualdo.

  4. Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater: Catherine Bott presents excerpts from settings of the Stabat mater dolorosa.

  5. Shakespeare and Music in the Time of Henry Purcell

    Simon Russell Beale explores Restoration theatre, including Richard II and The Tempest.

  6. Music for the Annunciation

    A programme with music for the Annunciation, including works by Parsons and Biber.

  7. Mouton

    Exploring the life and music of Jean Mouton, once a principal composer at the French court

  8. Handel and Steffani in Hanover

    Exploring Handel's time in Hanover and his relationship with Agostino Steffani.

  9. 01/03/2008

    Looking at the contribution to London's theatrical world of impresario John Rich.

  10. Notre Dame and the Sorbonne

    Lucie Skeaping learns about medieval composers and their influence on western music.

  11. The Development of the Parisian Chanson

    Catherine Bott looks at the rise of the Parisian chanson, a 15th-century French song.

  12. Le Concert Spirituel

    With the director of Le Concert Spirituel, the noted French concert society.

  13. Lully's Paris

    Lucie Skeaping explores Parisian locations associated with Jean-Baptiste Lully.

  14. A Day in the Life of Louis XIV

    Lucie Skeaping recreates a possible day in the life of King Louis XIV.

  15. 09/02/2008

    Catherine Bott looks at some of the many composers employed by the French royal family.

  16. 11/02/2006

    Catherine Bott talks to Maggie Cole about great harpsichordists of the early 20th century.

  17. The Palace of Versailles

    With a visit to the Palace of Versailles, which employed many notable musicians.

  18. The Versailles Centre for Baroque Music

    Lucy Skeaping explores France's rediscovery of its own baroque music.

  19. 27/01/2008

    Le Concert d'Astree play works by Leclair, Rameau and Dauvergne.

  20. 26/05/2007

    Lucie Skeaping explores John Taverner, who combined Medieval and Renaissance influences.

  21. What is Baroque?

    Catherine Bott ponders the question, what is Baroque?

  22. 22/04/2007

    Catherine Bott plays music to illustrate themes in George Herbert's short poem The Pulley.

  23. The Early Music Show

    Lucie Skeaping explores John Taverner, who combined Medieval and Renaissance influences.

  24. Utrecht Festival of Early Music 2007

    A programme recorded at the Jacobikerk, in Utrecht, featuring the Holland Baroque Society.

  25. 12/01/2008

    Catherine Bott presents selected highlights from the 2007 Stockholm Early Music Festival.

  26. 06/01/2008

    Lucie Skeaping explores Charpentier's setting of Euripides's great tragedy of Medea.

  27. Feast of Fools

    Lucie Skeaping looks back to the Middle Ages and the period between Christmas and Epiphany

  28. Baroque Dance

    Baroque dance specialist Philippa Waite explores the different styles of various dances.

  29. Das Partiturbuch

    Lucie Skeaping explores 17th-century German music known as Das Partiturbuch Ludwig.

  30. Padre Antonio Soler

    Catherine Bott presents a portrait of Spanish monk and composer Padre Antonio Soler.

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