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Radio 3's European Road Trip: Early Music in Iceland

Thursday, January 30, 2025 • Duration 33:54

As part of Radio 3's European Road Trip, Hannah French is joined by musicologist and conductor Árni Heimir Ingólfsson to explore early Icelandic music - from the 13th-century poems known as “Eddas” to the influence of mainland Europe that shaped Iceland’s rich sacred choral traditions, which still continue today.

To listen to this programme using most smart speakers just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play The Early Music Show".

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The Music of Wolf Hall

Thursday, January 30, 2025 • Duration 31:24

Hannah French visits Claire van Kampen - the Tudor music advisor & arranger for both Wolf Hall TV series - to explore the music associated with many of the main characters, including King Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell, Anne Boleyn and Lady Mary, as well as some of the musicians at court: Mark Smeaton, John Taverner and John Blanke.

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Silver

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 28:24

In honour of the Paris Olympics, Hannah French explores medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music associated with gold, silver and bronze across three episodes of The Early Music Show.

In second place, it's silver: from silver cymbals to South American silver mines, silver swans to Judas's 30 pieces of silver, Hannah considers the 'second best' metal and examines its connections with early music from Bach to Bolivia.

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Firework Music for Bonfire Night

Sunday, November 4, 2018 • Duration 27:59

On the day before Bonfire Night, Hannah French explores music for fireworks, with music by Corelli, Bach, Rameau and Gluck, and Handel's celebrated Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Couperin's Lecons de Tenebres

Sunday, October 28, 2018 • Duration 19:34

Hannah French explores Francois Couperin's extraordinarily dark and powerful vocal music for Holy Week - his settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah - the Lecons de Tenebres.

Composer Profile: Philip Rosseter

Sunday, October 21, 2018 • Duration 24:44

Countertenor Iestyn Davies marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of composer Philip Rosseter, and his role in a thriving scene that included Thomas Campion, John Dowland and Robert Johnson.

Possessed! Demons, Witches and Sorcery

Sunday, October 7, 2018 • Duration 21:08

Lucie Skeaping takes her second musical journey through the mysterious world of possession, featuring witchcraft, demons, sorcery and madness, and including pieces by Handel, Tartini, Purcell and Charpentier.

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Possessed! Euphoria, Tarantula and Trance

Sunday, September 30, 2018 • Duration 21:42

Lucie Skeaping takes the first of two musical journeys through the mysterious world of possession, featuring music associated with the ecstatic trances of Hildegard of Bingen, Teresa of Avila and Joan of Arc, Sufi dervishes, musical exorcisms performed to the wild rhythms of the tarantella and initiation rites of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé.

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The Western Wind

Sunday, September 9, 2018 • Duration 20:33

Hannah French explores the simple melody "The Western Wind" that inspired the early 16th Century masses by John Taverner, John Sheppard and Christopher Tye.

Acis and Galatea

Sunday, August 12, 2018 • Duration 17:20

Hannah French marks the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Handel's Acis & Galatea on the terraces overlooking the gardens at Cannons - the seat of the Duke of Chandos.

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