Tom McKinney introduces a recital of lute music, recorded in Vienna and performed by Paul O'Dette. Show more
Swiss Baroque group La Scintilla performs music by Giuseppe Brescianello and Antonio Vivaldi at the Opera House in Zurich. Plus Sammartini from German ensemble 4 Times Baroque. Show more
Highlights from a concert given in Herne in 2018, featuring 18th-century musical jewels from Dresden, including the music of JS Bach, Louis Marchand and Antonio Vivaldi.
Music celebrating the life and work of a remarkable 16th-century French princess, writer and artistic patron Marguerite de Navarre, who has been called 'the first modern woman'. Show more
Early Music from around the world: Jordi Savall directs Scarlatti's Stabat mater at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet, Catalonia Show more
Tom McKinney introduces performances of music by Charpentier and Lalande from the 2019 Actus Humanus Festival in Gdansk. Show more
Highlights from an all-Vivaldi concert by the Jupiter Ensemble and lutenist Thomas Dunford at the 2019 Musiq3 Festival in Brussels. Show more
Early Music Now
Laurence Cummings conducts the OAE
30 minutes
Laurence Cummings conducts the Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Purcell's so-called welcome song 'Why, why are all the Muses mute?'. Show more
Early Music Now
Music in Paradise Festival
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Music by Geminiani and Bach from Poland's Music in Paradise Festival Show more
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Bach and Vivaldi with I Barocchisti
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
Diego Fasolis conducts I Barocchisti in music by Bach and Vivaldi Show more
Ensemble Diderot play Baroque chamber music by Henry Purcell and his contemporaries. Presented by Fiona Talkington.
The ensemble, Vox Luminis, conducted by Lionel Meunier, perform cantatas by Dietrich Buxtehude. Show more
Early Music Now
Bach from St Thomas Church, Leipzig
30 minutes
Bach's Mass in F from St Thomas Church, Leipzig, sung by the famous choir that Bach himself directed. Show more
Tom McKinney introduces concertos for mandolin, presented by Avi Avital and Holland Baroque. Show more
Penny Gore presents excerpts from a concert called 'Venice to Vienna: Reviving the music of Pietro Andrea Ziani', given by the ensemble Societas Incognitorum.
Les Arts Florissants perform secular baroque music from France.
Georgia Mann presents ORA Singers with conductor Suzi Digby performing settings of the Miserere - Songs of Hope - by Allegri, Byrd and Tallis. Show more
Early Music from around Europe. Jean Gilles's Motet Diligam te, Domine from the Fribourg Festival of Sacred Music. The composer might have been short-lived, but his work endured. Show more
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Joachim Becerra Thomsen, Collegium 1704 and NeoBarock Ensemble
30 minutes
Flautist Joachim Becerra Thomsen plays JS and CPE Bach in Copenhagen, Collegium 1704 sing a crucifixus by Caldara and the NeoBarock Ensemble play a sonata by Johan Schop in Czechia. Show more
Early Music Now
The European Union Baroque Orchestra
30 minutes
Rachel Podger directs the European Union Baroque Orchestra in concertos by Handel and Albinoni. Show more