“Musick will give our hardest Labours Ease; The Hautboy charms in War, the Flute in Pease. Where Love or Honour calls, these Sounds inspire; This charms with Love, That Courage sets on fire.” This hour on Harmonia, we explore what Playford describes as an honorable and courageous instrument: the oboe. Then, stay tuned for our […]

The Sprightly Companion

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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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.

Different Ways to Think About Early Music

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.

Harmonia Uncut: Curious and Decadent

We'll hear music from the viol consort Phantasm during their 1999 U.S. tour.

Harmonia Uncut: Phantasm's Flights of Fantasy and Fugue

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."

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