Harmonia Uncut

By Indiana Public Media

What's Harmonia Uncut about?

Harmonia Uncut is a biweekly podcast featuring highlights from recent and archival concert recordings of early music, curated and presented by Wendy Gillespie.

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Harmonia Uncut episodes:

05.19.2023
Different Ways to Think About Early Music
On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.
05.19.2023
Different Ways to Think About Early Music
On Sunday, May 21, the Bloomington Early Music Festival kicks off a whole week of concerts and activities under the theme "Arabia, Iberia, and Latin America," expanding the focus of early music beyond Europe.
03.07.2022
Harmonia Uncut: Curious and Decadent
We'll hear music of Francois Devienne, CPE Bach, and Frédéric Duvernoy performed in 1988 by Colin St. Martin and Richard Seraphinoff, who were students at the IU Early Music Institute at that time.
02.21.2022
Harmonia Uncut: Phantasm's Flights of Fantasy and Fugue
We'll hear music from the viol consort Phantasm during their 1999 U.S. tour.
08.24.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Antic Faces
Join us for arrangements of well-known Elizabethan tunes mixed with serious secular polyphony in this 2019 concert by the ensemble Antic Faces entitled "Joyne Hands - Elizabethan entertainments for mixed consort."
07.19.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Telemann Sandwich
Here's a delicious Telemann sandwich filled with CPE Bach! (Hold the mayo and mustard.)
07.05.2021
Harmonia Uncut: "The Brade Bunch"
Head-banging viol consorts - really? YES! Join “The Brade Bunch” in Berkeley, CA in 2008 for some of the best music that has ever been.
06.21.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Thomas Binkley Remembered
Thomas Binkley died in April of 1995, and in September of that year a large group of former students and colleagues gathered to remember him with his own favorite kind music-making—live performance.
06.07.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Naughty Notes
The year is 1983 and notes inégales are about to be heard for the first time in Recital Hall at the IU School of Music.
05.10.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Arrangements of Bach
Judith Linsenberg has been living with her arrangements of Bach organ sonatas as trio sonatas for many years now, but we’re going to travel back to when she was getting to know the music for the first time.
04.26.2021
Harmonia Uncut: "Fourteenth-Century Chamber Music"
What the heck is fourteenth century chamber music? Excerpts from a concert called “Fourteenth century chamber music” - performed by faculty of the Early Music Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1989.
04.12.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Get Binked!
Thomas Binkley founded the Early Music Institute at IU School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana in 1980. We'll hear excerpts from the very first faculty performance.
03.29.2021
Harmonia Uncut: The Fifth of Six in the Seventh
A performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam,” BWV 7, on February 26, 2017, in Bloomington, Indiana. It was the fifth of six cantatas in the seventh season of the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project.
03.01.2021
The Hilliard Ensemble in 1980
We'll hear a performance from a 1980 cassette tape of the Hilliard Ensemble's first concert in NYC.
02.15.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Legrenzi Suggests…
The UNT Collegium Singers and Baroque Orchestra present several different ways of performing the music, just as Giovanni Legrenzi suggests. Check it out!
02.01.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Old School, New Perspective
Listen as Hebrew, Islam, and Christian traditions overlap and diverge as they spread around Europe and Asia, in a performance by ensemble Schola Antiqua.
01.19.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Sleepwalking in 17th-Century Paris...
The ensemble Sonnambula plays music from seventeenth-century France by Lully, Lalande, and more at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in NYC of September 2017. Join us!
01.04.2021
Harmonia Uncut: Richard Davy's St. Matthew Passion
Let's hear some of Quire Cleveland's 2017 performance of the St. Matthew Passion by Renaissance composer Richard Davy.
12.21.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Czech Out This Christmas Concert!
Tempesta di Mare created a very unusual Christmas concert of Czech music, most of which was found in a bishop’s library in the Moravian Court in Kroměříž. Singers, strings, brass, winds, and organ join together for festive music of the...
12.07.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Baroque in Texas
Join us for excerpts from the concert “Hecho en Mexico” by Austin Baroque Orchestra.
11.23.2020
Parthenia, Dashon Burton, and King James
Travel with us back through time to October 2016. We’re visiting St. Luke in the Fields Church in New York City for “King James and his Bible: a musical portrait,” a concert presented by the viol consort Parthenia with guest...
11.09.2020
Harmonia Uncut: An Alchymical Transformation
In January, 2020, Alchymy Viols underwent some friendly alchemy to become an ensemble of singers and instrumentalists perfect for the performance of Marc Antoine Charpentier’s 11th and final mass, first performed at the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, probably during the...
10.26.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Musique et Masqueray
We'll hear excerpts from the Rose Ensemble's concert at the St. Thomas Aquinas Church in St. Paul in March of 2017. The concert comprised liturgical music composed in the style current in France in the seventeenth century, though not all...
10.12.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Loftus and Lapin - Not a law firm!
Harmonia Uncut brings you two performances from back in the time of concerts, one of Mozart from Gili Loftus, and one of Muffat from Matvey Lapin.
09.28.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Quire Cleveland Performs William Byrd
Quire Cleveland performs music by William Byrd from a 2016 concert, “England’s Phoenix: William Byrd.”
09.14.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Les Voix Humaines and Dowland's Teares
Les Voix Humaines and Nigel North, perform some very beautiful and unusual interpretations of John Dowland's Lacrimae, or Seaven Teares.
08.31.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Vajra Voices
Vajra Voices, directed by Karen R. Clark, is a female vocal ensemble that sings medieval to modern music. On February 1, 2020 they gave a concert called “In a Medieval Garden” in Santa Cruz, California. We’re going to listen to...
08.17.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Monteverdi Collab
Add the Dark Horse Consort and the Chant Schola to the Green Mountain Project (in Italian, “green mountain” easily translates to “monte verdi” - just saying); gather in the Church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York City on...
08.03.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Quaver
In 2018, the viol consort Quaver performed a concert at the Viola da Gamba Society of America's conclave in North Carolina and surprised their listeners with some unexpected approaches to familiar music.
07.20.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Infusion Baroque
Music from Infusion Baroque's performance in the 2017 Indianapolis Early Music Festival in a program that featured Italianate composers of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
07.06.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Impossible Historical Performances
On this episode of Harmonia Uncut, we visit two lone musicians, one in Ohio and one in Berlin, already alone before the pandemic, recording themselves playing all the parts of their pieces. Tricky stuff!
06.22.2020
Familiarity and Freshness
We'll hear excerpts from “The People’s Purcell” by Le Nef with Michael Slattery at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival’s opening concert of 2017.
06.08.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Elizabethan Enterprise
Ah, time travel! Today’s podcast revisits Music before 1800 in New York City in January of 1979 to bring you excerpts from a concert of fifteenth century Italian music.
05.25.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Waltham Abbey 1993
The Waltham Abbey Singers perform music of Thomas Tallis.
05.11.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Viols, Vinci & Vittoria
Three strands are braided together into this episode of Harmonia Uncut: copies of viols from Lombardy performing music from Lombardy that sets spiritual sonnets written by the first published female poet.
04.27.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Potpourri - Hair Shirts & Blisters on Fingers
On today’s podcast, we’ll hear a trouvère song by Gace Brulé with voice and vielle by Aaron Cain and Joanna Blendulf. Then...ever heard of David Baudinger? You won’t forget the name after you hear this performance by viola da gamba...
04.13.2020
Harmonia Uncut: 50 Shades of Baroque
The supergroup 50 Shades of Baroque perform in a concert most intriguingly titled eponymously. We'll hear music by the Italian composer Antonio Caldara.
03.30.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Black Tulip and the Delights of Arcadia
Ensemble Black Tulip in concert, celebrating the delights of Arcadia, including pastoral solo cantatas by Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti.
03.16.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Ensemble Alkemie Unites Music and Magic
We’ll hear some ‘Alkemical’ medieval songs and dance,
03.02.2020
Harmonia Uncut: Piffaro “Back before Bach”
Excerpts from renowned renaissance band Piffaro's March 2018 Philadelphia concert.
08.25.2019
Robert Parsons, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal
This week our travels take us to Elizabethan England via the music of Robert Parsons, William Byrd’s immediate predecessor at the Chapel Royal. Sadly, Parsons drowned in the prime of life, but he left us a wonderful legacy of stunning...
08.11.2019
Beach Vacation
Are you feeling landlocked? Ready to catch a few waves, splash in the surf and dig your toes in the sand? This hour on Harmonia, we’re headed to the beach, exploring ocean-themed music from across the centuries. From the winds...
08.04.2019
Gargoyle Melodies: Music from the Notre Dame Cathedral
The Cathedral of Notre Dame was heavily damaged in April 2019 by a disastrous fire, and although its largest historical organ managed to survive, there was much devastation. Strangely, we already had a Harmonia program in the pipeline exploring the...
07.28.2019
Paul Wranitzky (Who?)
Imagine being a violinist and conductor whom both Haydn and Beethoven want to hire to conduct premieres of their work . . . you’re in the same freemasons’ lodge as Mozart . . . and you’re a prominent person in...
07.21.2019
The Warbling Chalumeau
From time to time on Harmonia, we like to feature music written for a particular historical instrument. This week, we’re getting to know the chalumeau, whose brief popularity left a lasting impression. It’s a single-reed instrument we might describe as...
07.14.2019
The Musical World of Johannes Ciconia
This hour we’re exploring the work of a composer for whom more music survives than any other composer working around 1400 in Europe. Join us for a sampling of the eclectic works of Johannes Ciconia. Our featured release is a...
07.07.2019
The Songs of Salamone Rossi
Salamone Rossi was an Italian string player and composer working at the turn of the 17th century, a contemporary of Monteverdi and Caccini. Join us as we mull musically over a Mantuan musician who left an indelible imprint on European...
06.30.2019
Costanzo Festa
Imagine being a singer in your late 20’s in the Sistine Chapel choir, with Josquin des Pres as a colleague. That was the fate of Costanzo Festa, who was one of the first Italians to join the ranks of the...
06.23.2019
Bird Watching
Birds are nature’s original songsters, and it’s a rare musician who has managed to turn a deaf ear to their music. From Medieval troubadours to avant-garde stylists, composers throughout the centuries have listened – and sought to imitate – the...
06.16.2019
The Floating City
This week, we travel back in time to the Italian city of Venice. Lined with gondola-filled canals, stunning architecture, and mystical glass, Venice still enchants visitors with its multi-layered history and culture, not to mention its many centuries of splendid...

What's Harmonia Uncut about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Harmonia Uncut episodes:

Different Ways to Think About Early Music

Different Ways to Think About Early Music

Harmonia Uncut: Curious and Decadent

Harmonia Uncut: Phantasm's Flights of Fantasy and Fugue

Harmonia Uncut: Antic Faces

Harmonia Uncut: Telemann Sandwich

Harmonia Uncut: "The Brade Bunch"

Harmonia Uncut: Thomas Binkley Remembered

Harmonia Uncut: Naughty Notes

Harmonia Uncut: Arrangements of Bach

Harmonia Uncut: "Fourteenth-Century Chamber Music"

Harmonia Uncut: Get Binked!

Harmonia Uncut: The Fifth of Six in the Seventh

The Hilliard Ensemble in 1980

Harmonia Uncut: Legrenzi Suggests…

Harmonia Uncut: Old School, New Perspective

Harmonia Uncut: Sleepwalking in 17th-Century Paris...

Harmonia Uncut: Richard Davy's St. Matthew Passion

Harmonia Uncut: Czech Out This Christmas Concert!

Harmonia Uncut: Baroque in Texas

Parthenia, Dashon Burton, and King James

Harmonia Uncut: An Alchymical Transformation

Harmonia Uncut: Musique et Masqueray

Harmonia Uncut: Loftus and Lapin - Not a law firm!

Harmonia Uncut: Quire Cleveland Performs William Byrd

Harmonia Uncut: Les Voix Humaines and Dowland's Teares

Harmonia Uncut: Vajra Voices

Harmonia Uncut: Monteverdi Collab

Harmonia Uncut: Quaver

Harmonia Uncut: Infusion Baroque

Harmonia Uncut: Impossible Historical Performances

Familiarity and Freshness

Harmonia Uncut: Elizabethan Enterprise

Harmonia Uncut: Waltham Abbey 1993

Harmonia Uncut: Viols, Vinci & Vittoria

Harmonia Uncut: Potpourri - Hair Shirts & Blisters on Fingers

Harmonia Uncut: 50 Shades of Baroque

Harmonia Uncut: Black Tulip and the Delights of Arcadia

Harmonia Uncut: Ensemble Alkemie Unites Music and Magic

Harmonia Uncut: Piffaro “Back before Bach”

Robert Parsons, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal

Beach Vacation

Gargoyle Melodies: Music from the Notre Dame Cathedral

Paul Wranitzky (Who?)

The Warbling Chalumeau

The Musical World of Johannes Ciconia

The Songs of Salamone Rossi

Costanzo Festa

Bird Watching

The Floating City