Codex Calixtinus: Vespers of Saint James | WFMT Since the ninth century, the routes to Santiago de Compostela leading to the sanctuary of St. James have attracted countless pilgrims and exercised a potent mystique.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10CT on Classical WFMT, come along with us as we follow The Way of St James with hymns sung by pilgrims to Campostela. www.wfmt.com/2026/04/15/c...

O, Jerusalem! Crossroads of Three Faiths | WFMT Apollo’s Fire, under the direction of Jeannette Sorrell, presents an exploration of the four quarters of Old Jerusalem (Jewish, Christian, Arab, and Armenian/Byzantine).

#EarlyMuscWednesday Apollo’s Fire, under the direction of Jeannette Sorrell, presents an exploration of the four quarters of Old Jerusalem. Tonight, 10 CT on Baroque&Before www.wfmt.com/2026/04/08/a...

Music of Lamentation & Hope for Holy Week | WFMT Václav Luks conducts Collegium 1704 and Collegium Vocale 1704 in a program of sacred music capturing the depth of Holy Week. Performed on period instruments, this outstanding ensemble offers an intens...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Václav Luks conducts Collegium 1704 & Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704 in a program of sacred music by Zelenka, Caldara & Durante, capturing the depth of Holy Week. 2nite 10CT on @BaroqueBefore www.wfmt.com/2026/04/01/m...

The Tallis Scholars in Tokyo | WFMT As part of its fiftieth anniversary world tour, The Tallis Scholars under the direction of Peter Phillips brought to Japan sacred works by Renaissance masters Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Cristób...

#EarlyMusicWednesday The Tallis Scholars under the direction of Peter Phillips celebrated in 2024 its 50th anniversary with a world tour with sacred works by Renaissance masters Join us tonight, 10CT for Baroque&Before on WFMT Chicago.
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The Great Eighteen: Bach's Leipzig Chorales | WFMT Written in the last decade of his life, Bach’s chorale preludes for organ mark the pinnacle of his sacred works for organ. Daniel Gauss, organist at the Bern Cathedral, plays the Gottlieb Leuw organ, ...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Bach’s Leipzig chorale preludes mark the pinnacle of his sacred works for organ. Recorded live in concert, Daniel Gauss, organist at the Bern Cathedral, plays the Cathedral’s 1729 Gottlieb Leuw organ. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT
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The @moderation.bsky.app algorithm has labeled Schiavone’s mid-16th century’s painting “The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche” as adult content and has hid it from view. You’ll see my post on wfmt’s website when you click on the link. We are doomed. But enjoy the broadcast!

Just Married! | WFMT German Baroque wedding festivities combined solemn ceremony and joyful celebration, the latter often spread over several days. Vox Luminis and the Freiburg Baroque Consort unite to perform wedding mus...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Wigmore Hall: Vox Luminis & Freiburg Baroque Consort perform enchanting wedding cantatas by JS Bach & older cousin, JC Bach, plus Heinrich Schütz’s “How good and pleasant it is when G-d’s people live together in unity!” 2nite, 10 CT on WFMT
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Swiss recorder player & conductor Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos tonight at 10CT on WFMT. Join me for “Baroque&Before” and enjoy this portrait of a young & hunky Bach www.wfmt.com/2026/02/25/b...

Bach: Mass in b minor | WFMT Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 2...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Gregorian chant to the galant, Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. 2nite 10CT, Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704 & vocal soloists in this live concert recording from Prague. www.wfmt.com/2026/02/18/b...

Ars Subtilior: Ballades, Rondeaux & Virelais | WFMT Love is complicated, but not as complicated as the music that celebrates it.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Love is complicated, but not as complicated as ars subtilior, the 14th-century musical style that celebrates it. Join me tonite, 10CT for @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2026/02/11/a...

Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune | WFMT Marc Mauillon and friends (Maud Haering, Angélique Mauillon, Nolwenn Le Guern, and Pierre Hamon bring us the romantic Le Remède de Fortune, a “dit,” or narrative poem with music by Guillame de Machaut...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Guillaume de Machaut was 14th-century Europe’s greatest poet and composer. Marc Mauillon and friends bring us Guillaume’s romance “Le Remède de Fortune” by this exemplar of the ars nova musical style. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2026/02/04/g...

Sound Out of Silence: The Baroque Clavichord | WFMT Early keyboardist Terence Charlston presents the first recording on clavichord of the complete fantasias and canzonas from Johann Jacob Froberger's Libro Secondo, written in 1649.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Vibrato on a (non-electronic) keyboard? This effect and more is possible with the clavichord. Join me tonight, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT for an intimate program of works for clavichord by Johann Jakob Froberger. www.wfmt.com/2026/01/14/s...

Sonate italiane | WFMT Violinist Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in Italian sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi, Geminiani, Tartini, Veracini and Locatelli. Recorded live in concert July 22, 2023, in the extraordinary acoustics o...

#EarlyMusicWednesday “Baroque&Before”begins its twelfth year of werr weekly broadcasts on WFMT! Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas of the Italian Baroque. Recorded live in concert in Poland’s Church of Peace. Join me tonight 10CT! www.wfmt.com/2026/01/07/s...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Jordi Savall | WFMT Baroque&Before’s special extended Christmas edition presents Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio, written for the Christmas season of 1734-1735.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Our special Christmas edition: Bach‘s Christmas Oratorio for 1734-1735’s season. Jordi Savall leads La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations & soloists, recorded live in concert December 18 & 29, 2019 in Barcelona’s Palau de la Música. www.wfmt.com/2025/12/24/b...

Italian Christmas Concertos | WFMT The Christmas season was an extremely busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century: congregations expected newly written music every year. A tradition emerged in the early seventeenth cent...

#EarlyMusicWednesday The Christmas season was a busy time for church composers in the eighteenth century, adding writing music for Advent & Christmas in addition to their regular duties. Join me 2nite, 10CT for 2 hours of pastoral concertos on “Baroque&Before” www.wfmt.com/2025/12/17/i...

Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" | WFMT Handel recast the story of Judas Maccabeus as a celebratory ode to King George II, with music of unprecedented refinement, gripping suspense, and drama.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, commemorates the story of Judas Maccabaeus. Nicholas McGegan leads the Philharmonia Baroque Orch, U.C. Berkely Chamber Chorus & soloists bring us Handel’s version tonight, 10CT on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/12/10/h...

The Tallis Scholars in Tokyo | WFMT As part of its fiftieth anniversary world tour, The Tallis Scholars under the direction of Peter Phillips brought to Japan sacred works by Renaissance masters Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Cristób...

#EarlyMusicWednesday The recital by the Tallis Scholars of sacred works by Renaissance masters kicks off our December holiday programs. Handel’s Judas Maccabeus, Italian pastoral Christmas concertos & Bach’s Christmas Oratorio coming up. Join us 10p CT on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/12/03/t...

The Days & Seasons of Renaissance Mantua | WFMT Voces Suaves and Basel’s Capricornus Consort join forces for a program of madrigals and instrumental works by Monteverdi, Giaches De Wert, and their contemporaries.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10CT on WFMT, join Baroque&Before for a concert from Zurich’s Early Music Festival. Voces Suaves & Basel’s Capricornus Consort offer madrigals & instrumental works by Monteverdi, Giaches De Wert, Gastoldi & their contemporaries.
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Countertenor Valer Sabadus: Il gusto italiano | WFMT Italy, the land of longing for Germans for centuries, Handel among them. Early music conductor Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in an exploration of “the Italian taste.” They...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Hungry for Vivaldi? Have you tried “il gusto italiano?” Handel did and was hooked. Join @voicecandy.bsky.social 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & countertenor Valer Sabadus. Squisito! www.wfmt.com/2025/10/29/c...

Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos | WFMT The title is French and sums it up: “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments,” as Bach himself called his famous concerto collection. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger and Frankfu...

Bach called them his “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments.” We know them as the Brandenburg Concertos. Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six. Also On Demand page, 30 days after the broadcast. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/22/b...

In the Patron's Shadow: Christophe Rousset in Works by Couperin | WFMT François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of th...

#EarlyMusicWednesday François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/15/i...

Bach: Mass in b minor | WFMT Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in one of the supreme works of the Baroque era; one that has fascinated musicians and listeners for more than 2...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. 2nite, 10CT, Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704 & vocal soloists in this live concert recording from Prague’s Rudolfinum. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/08/b...

Sacred Bridges: Psalms of David | WFMT Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

#EarlyMusicWednesday The King’s Singers & Sarband bring us Psalms of David: songs of lament & joy & praise & glory in settings by Salamone Rossi, Claude Goudimel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck & Alî Ufkî. Join us tonight, 10CT on WFMT for “Baroque&Before with Candice Agree.” www.wfmt.com/2025/10/01/s...

Les chemins hébraïques du baroque | WFMT Passionate about Hebraic spiritual traditions, Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Selections from Marcello’s sett...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Benedetto Marcello, inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-c. Venice, set paraphrases of the Psalms of David. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before”on WFMT Chicago www.wfmt.com/2025/09/24/l...

The World of Ramon Llull | WFMT Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia, living at a time marked by the coexistence, not always peacefully, of the three Abrahamic religious cultu...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Jordi Savall explores 13th-century Ars antigua & the exchange of musical ideas among Jews, Muslims & Catholics of the High Middle Ages in “Ramon Llull: Times of Conquest, Dialogue & Exhortation.” Join me tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Corund Ensemble & Tomás Luis de Victoria | WFMT Known as the “Spanish Palestrina,” Tomás Luis de Victoria has been called the greatest of all Iberian composers.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. Swiss vocal ensemble Corund brings us sacred madrigals & the 1605 Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria, the greatest of all Iberian composers. ¡No te pierdas! www.wfmt.com/2025/09/10/c...

Profile: Jaap Schröder | WFMT We celebrate violinist Jaap Schröder, one of the first pioneers to present performances of baroque, and later, classical works, on period instruments.

#EarlyMusicWednesday Violinist & conductor Jaap Schröder was a pioneer of the historically-informed performance movement. Join me tonight at 10CT to enjoy surprisingly fresh interpretations of Bach, Vivaldi & Roman on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/09/03/j...

Tempus mirabilium: Hopes & Dreams | WFMT Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková joins Capella de la Torre for a program of early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy celebrating an age of miracles. Recorded live in concert Jul...

#EarlyMusicWednesday! Tonight, travel back to Prague's Summer Festivities of Early Music for a live concert of 17th century gems, featuring the wonderful Capella de la Torre ensemble. 10 pm CT. www.wfmt.com/2025/08/27/t...

Music of the Angels | WFMT Inspired by Hans Memling’s altarpiece for a Spanish nunnery, and using instruments built especially for this project, historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp and the female vocal ensemble Tibur...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Prague’s Early Music Festival: historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerpen & female vocal ensemble Tiburtina in 15th-c. monophonic chant and polyphonic hymns. Join Candice Agree tonight, 10CT on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/08/20/p...

Apollo's Fire & Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 | WFMT Jeannette Sorrell, founder and director of Apollo's Fire, describes Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers as "daringly avant-garde...”

#EarlyMusicWednesday Daringly avant-garde when Monteverdi wrote it some 415 years ago, his “Vespers for the Blessed Virgin” remains one of the greatest sacred works ever written. Join me to hear this glorious marvel on “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10CT on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/08/13/m...