#EarlyMusicWednesday Join me Tonite, 10CT for Baroque&Before” on WFMT: www.wfmt.com/2026/05/27/b...

#EarlyMusicWednesday 2nite, 10CT on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2026/05/13/b...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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. www.wfmt.com/2026/03/25/t...

#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 www.wfmt.com/2026/03/18/t...

#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 www.wfmt.com/2026/03/11/j...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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. www.wfmt.com/2025/11/19/t...

#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 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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#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...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Madness! Madness I tell you! La Follia! 1 melody, 11 composers with Ensemble 1700. Join me tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/08/06/l...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10 Central, The Red Book of Montserrat, a 14th-century collection of devotional texts and music for pilgrims making their way to the Montserrat Monastery. Join us for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/07/30/j...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, lauded for her interpretations of Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, and more, also excelled in baroque and renaissance music, the repertory we'll hear her in tonight at 10CT on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT

#EarlyMusicWednesday Female vocal ensemble Psallentes brings us anonymous works from the Codex Las Huelgas & Hildegard of Bingen’s Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula. Join me s tonight, 10CT for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/07/16/c...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Hear 17th-century Catalan composer Joan Cererols’s rarely heard Neapolitan-influenced “Missa pro defunctis” tonight at 10CT on WFMT’s “Baroque&Before.” No t'ho perdis! Don’t miss it! www.wfmt.com/2025/07/09/j...

#EarlyMusicWednesday “[T]he feel of the strings with both hands and it's up against your solar plexus,…there's nothing between you and the music.” Guitarist & lutenist Julian Bream’s on “Baroque&Before” tonight at 10CT on WFMT. Join us! www.wfmt.com/2025/07/02/c...

From the Church of San Maurizio in Milan’s Monastero Maggiore, Canticum’s 8 male voices & Lorenzo Ghielmi, playing the 16th-century Gian Giacomo Antegnati organ, in musical flowers by Fresbobaldi. Join me tonight, 10CT for @BaroqueBefore on @WFMTclassical www.wfmt.com/2025/06/25/a...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Giulio Prandi leads the Ghislieri Chorus, Orchestra & soloists in Naples-born Spaniard Davide Perez’s Mattutino de’ Morti, considered the most significant musical work of 18th century Portugal. Join us tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/06/18/a...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Stockholm’s Early Music Festival: Harpsichordist Marcin Świątkiewicz and Arte dei Suonatori explore the Polish influence in German baroque music. Join me 2nite, 10CT for WFMT’s “Baroque&Before.” www.wfmt.com/2025/06/11/a...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas of the Italian Baroque. Recorded live in concert in the world’s largest wooden Baroque church and a Unesco World heritage site. Join me tonight 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/06/04/s...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas of the Italian Baroque. Recorded live in concert in the world’s largest wooden Baroque church and a Unesco World heritage site. Join me tonight 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/06/04/s...

#EarlyMusicWednesday How to play the harpsichord: François Couperin told us how; Cristophe Rousset shows us how. Hope you can join us for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/05/28/i...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Music from the 13-17th century Spain is an Iberian melting pot, its ingredients from Jewish, Roman, Germanic, Byzantine, French & Arabic cultures. Join me tonight, 10 Central for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/05/21/t...

#EarlyMusicWednesday From Gregorian chant to the galant, Bach synthesized the history of music as he knew it in his B Minor Mass. Hear this masterpiece, recorded live in concert in Prague’s Rudolfinum tonight, 10CT on “Baroque&Before” with Candice Agree on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/05/14/b...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Peace, love, hope, salvation. Soprano Hana Blažíková & Capella de la Torre celebrate an age of miracles with music from early seventeenth-century Germany and Italy. Join us tonight at 10 CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/05/07/t...

#EarlyMusicWednesday July, 1707 was a very good month for Handel. I’ll share his accomplishments tonight at 10 CT on @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/04/30/h...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Female vocal group PSALLENTES treats us to mediæval treasures from the Codex de las Huelgas Hildegard of Bingen’s Chants for the Feast of Saint Ursula. Join them tonight, 10CT on “Baroque&Before” on WFMT... www.wfmt.com/2025/04/23/c...

#EarlyMusicWednesday 10th-16th century works from the Sephardic diaspora commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Join me tonight, 10 CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. Sentak-khadhra! www.wfmt.com/2025/04/09/s...

#EarlyMusicWednesday Historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp & female vocal ensemble Tiburtina join forces in 15th-century monophonic chant & polyphonic pieces inspired by a Hans Memling altarpiece. Join me tonight 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/04/02/p...