Roger Norrington, who has died aged 91, was one of the great pioneers of the early music revival. Radio Free Classical pays tribute with a 3-hour selection of Norrington’s recordings, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights at 9. Read the obituary here.
I asked Grok to come up with a timeline of composers’ lives. I noticed two interesting times when many major composers were thriving simultaneously. The blue covers the Baroque age with Bach, Vivaldi and Handel and the red covers the incredible Romantic age. Rossini, Liszt, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Dvorak were all creating at this moment in time.
An English Pastorale – Radio Free Classical presents idyllic, soothing music from the British Isles every Sunday morning at 9. Soon to be expanded throughout the week! Stay tuned!
