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Musica Antiqua on WORT, 118 Bedford Street, Madison, WI (2025)

09/20/2025

This Sunday, Musica Antiqua host Terri Felton will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with music from Spain and Latin America, including pieces from the Llibre Vermell of Monserrat and the Codex las Huelgas, as well as music by Luys Milán, Francisco Guerrero, Esteban Salas, Santiago de Murcia, and many others.

We will also hear selections from a very recent September 2025 release entitled “Le Coeur et la Raison” (The Heart and the Mind), which features French airs of the 17th century, which were often used to set sacred and spiritual text, transferring the vows of worldly love to that of honoring Jesus and the Church. This album specifically features some of the “airs of devotion” with text by Father François Berthod, a 17th century Franciscan friar who re-wrote the text of these love songs for the young nuns of the church, so that they could enjoy the popular tunes of the day, while still honoring their “modesty, piety, and virtue”. The album also includes two settings of Psalm 50, the “Miserere”, and we will hear the setting by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, organist at the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr, a boarding school for young women founded by Louis XIV.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday from 8-11am central time on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison. You can also hear us streaming live at wortfm.org, or listen to the archive any time over the next two weeks. Thank you for listening and supporting WORT, your community radio station. Your comments and requests are always welcome here on Facebook, by email at [email protected], or by calling 608-256-2001 during the broadcast.

Image: page from the Codex las Huelgas, Frank Cooper Facsimile Collection.

09/12/2025

On Musica Antiqua for September 14, host Alan Muirhead features music for violin and lute solo, several different choral works, and renaissance and baroque bands. As usual, he will also celebrate composers who were born or died in September.
The program opens with an extended suite by Rameau, the French theorist and composer who was born on 9/25/1683 and died on 9/12/1764. Another anniversary is that of Francesco Landini, who was the leading composer of the Italian trecento and died on 9/2/1397. You will also hear music by Turnhout, Hildegard, Rosenmüller and others. A major work will be a requiem mass by Pierre de Manchicourt.
Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning 8-11am on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison, and streams live and is archived for 2 weeks at wortfm.org.
Portrait of Rameau by Jacques Aved.

09/10/2025

For Friday's Fantasia, guest host Alan Muirhead will be playing several pieces having to do with death and funerals, but also many other pieces that are lighter in tone. He will open with a setting of the Stabat Mater, a 13th century poem depicting Mary at the cross where her son is crucified, by the Baroque composer Brossard, but then in the second hour you will hear a setting by Verdi. Other funeral music by Purcell, Morley, Holborne and Weelkes will be scattered throughout the program. More modern selections will include music by Paul Chihara, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Thomas Ades and Lou Harrison. The first piano concerto by Shostakovich will close the program. That's this Friday, 5-8am on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison; and if that's too early, don't forget that the show is archived for 2 weeks at wortfm.org.
Painting is by Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin (1821–1892).

09/06/2025

On Sunday host Natalie Fields will feature lots of music with strings. She calls it a string-forward program, with a little Bach, a little Rachel Barton Pine, a little Rebecca Raimondi. Tune into Musica Antiqua on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison, 8-11am on Sunday, or listen online at any time over the next 2 weeks at wortfm.org.
Image is a painting by Nicolas Tounier (1590-1639), Woman playing a violin.

08/30/2025

Happy Labor Day weekend from Musica Antiqua! On Sunday, August 31, host Carol Moseson brings you early music, ranging from 13th-century trouvère songs to a spectacular pastoral Mass by José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830), the Afro-Brazilian father of classical music. Carol will also play a joyous Easter cantata by Johann Pachelbel in honor of his baptism on September 1, 1653. Other composers will include Francesca Caccini, Josquin, Byrd, and Agricola. You’ll also hear a sonata for viola da gamba and harpsichord, a lute suite, and dances and airs played by a recorder consort.

Musica Antiqua, one of the nation’s longest-running programs of medieval, renaissance, and baroque music, airs every Sunday morning from 8 to 11. Find us in South Central Wisconsin on WORT 89.9 FM or at wortfm.org anywhere. Thank you, as always, for listening! Your comments and requests are welcome here on Facebook, [email protected], or during the show at 608-256-2001. Have a happy and safe holiday weekend.

Image: Illustration of José Mauricio Nunes Garcia Júnior wearing the Cross of Christ, artist unknown. Source: Mattos, Cleofe Person de., José Maurício Nunes Garcia: Biografia. Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, 1997.

08/26/2025

On Friday morning, August 29, Carol Moseson will host Perry Allaire’s “Fantasia,” which airs from 5:00 to 8:00 a.m. Carol looks forward to bringing you two orchestral masterpieces—Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Viola, Violin & Orchestra in Eb major, K. 364 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21. You’ll also hear the lesser-known, but lovely Flute Concerto in D major, op. 283 by Carl Reinecke (1824-1910), a Beethoven violin and piano sonata, and a few Chopin nocturnes. Two beautiful choral works will bookend the program; the first is Handel’s anthem “As Pants the Hart,” HWV 251b, and the second is Price’s cantata “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight.”

Fantasia is part of WORT’s weekday classical line-up. Catch it on the first three (and fifth) Fridays of each month from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. (Intersections, Rich Samuels’s program featuring classical music by local musicians, takes the fourth Friday.) Listen live on WORT 89.9 FM or wortfm.org or use the free WORT app available on your app store. You can also find archived music shows and playlists at wortfm.org. Thank you for being part of the WORT community.

Image: Florence Price diary entry. November 27, 1949. It documents her sending “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” to the Friends of Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Contest. Source: Florence Price, diary, November 27, 1949. Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, (MC 988a), Box 1, Folder 7, Item 1. Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville.

08/23/2025

Join Musica Antiqua host Terri Felton this Sunday for a wide variety of Medieval, Baroque, and Renaissance selections, including French, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Swedish, and Andalusian music. Featured performers include Rachel Barton-Pine, Fabio Biondi, The Viadana Collective, and Música Ficta.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday from 8-11am central time on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison. You can also hear us streaming live at wortfm.org, or listen to the archive any time over the next two weeks. Thank you for listening and supporting WORT, your community radio station. Your comments and requests are always welcome here on Facebook, by email at [email protected], or by calling 608-256-2001 during the broadcast.

Image: “Still Life with a Violin, a Recorder, Books, a Portfolio of Sheet of Music, Peaches and Grapes on a Table Top”, Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), public domain.

08/15/2025

On Musica Antiqua for August 17, host Alan Muirhead will continue to sample recent additions to the library. You will hear from CDs by favorites like Infusion Baroque, Stile Antico, amarcord, and Il Fagiolini, plus groups like Canto Fiorito, Ensemble Bonne Corde, Musica Gloria, the Utopia Ensemble, and the debut solo CD by Elisa La Marca.
Composers include Desprez, Palestrina, Fasch, and Benevoli, as well as Georg Österreich and Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, sister to Frederick the Great.
Featured works include a concerto grosso by Pereira da Costa, a recorder quartet by Fasch, and Benevoli's Missa Benevola for 4 choirs. Plus pieces by Merula, Crecquillion, Gombert, Holborne, and others.
Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8-11am on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison. It also streams live on wortfm.org, where it is also available in the archive for the next 2 weeks. Tell your friends!

Summer 1590, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

08/13/2025

Fantasia on Friday has as its theme "lament". Host Alan Muirhead, subbing for Perry Allaire, will play a variety of music that either has 'lament' as part of its title or deals with subjects like death. But all is not despair, as you will occasionally hear happier tunes, and even a lullaby. Most music is from the 20th century - i.e., you will not hear the Lamentations by Tallis or other renaissance composers. Tune in to hear music that you would not expect Alan to play on Musica Antiqua! Fantasia is on Friday from 5 to 8am. You can hear it on WORT, 89.9FM, Madison, and also on wortfm.org, streaming live. If 5am is a little too early for you, please know that you can hear the show whenever you want at wortfm.org, where it is archived for 2 weeks.

08/08/2025

For today's Musica Antiqua, host Alan Muirhead will feature a wide variety of music, mostly drawn from recordings that were added to the library this year. To start you'll hear English music from 2 CDs: Music for Troubled Times (the English Civil War) and Music for Windy Instruments. Then the focus shifts to Denmark, with several selections from Reforming Hymns, to Austria with an instrumental aria in 8 short movements by Radolt, and back to England with a Magnificat attributed to one of the Cornyshes.
The second hour opens with a short organ piece by Scheidemann, we'll begin a series of Ave Verum Corpus, with settings by Lassus, Desprez, Palestrina and Penalosa; the third hour continues the series with settings by Assandra, Byrd, and Brossard. The 3rd hour closes with several recordings of music by Giovanni Gabrieli, who died on 8/12/1612.
All this and lots more along the way! Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8-11am on WORT, 89.9 FM, Madison; it also streams live and is archived on wortfm.org. Tell your friends!
Image is of a Bohemian statue that dates to about 1400 of Mary presenting the body of Christ.

08/07/2025

Are you an early riser or a fan of romantic and later classical music? Carol Moseson will guest-host Perry Allaire’s Fantasia tomorrow morning, Friday, August 8, from 5 to 8 a.m. on WORT 89.9 FM and wortfm.org.

You'll hear songs and music for violin and piano by Cécile Chaminade, who was born on August 8, 1857. Carol’s lineup will also include music by Schumann, Brahms, Bernstein, and Price.

WORT brings you in-depth, beautiful classical music every weekday morning from 5 to 8 a.m. Too early for you? Music programs are archived at wortfm.org so you can listen to them later.

Image: Photograph of Cécile Chaminade, photographer unknown, published 1913 in “Representative Women: Being a Little Gallery of Pen Portraits” by Lois Oldham Henrici.

PS—Tremendous thanks to the generous Musica Antiqua, classical, and community-minded listeners who have already pitched in to help WORT replace the $113,000 in Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding canceled by Congress. We’re making excellent progress toward closing that gap. If you are financially able to do so, please donate at wortfm.org. You can also support WORT by talking us up with your family and friends, and by volunteering. Thank you for being part of the WORT community.

08/02/2025

Join Musica Antiqua this Sunday, August 3, 2025, for a special guest and a ticket giveaway! Sarah Brailey, artistic director of the Handel Aria Competition (HAC), joins host Carol Moseson in the 10 o’clock hour for a preview of next Friday’s competition. Sarah and Carol will share a few of the arias the seven finalists will perform live with Madison Bach Musicians at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, August 8, at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison. You'll also have a chance to win one of two pairs of tickets to the competition.

There will also be earlier music on the show—13th century Italian hymns of praise, songs by 15th century Franco-Flemish composers Dufay and Binchois, early 17th century German instrumental music, and music for viol consort by Leonora Duarte and John Blow.

Musica Antiqua airs every Sunday morning from 8-11 on WORT 89.9 fm, Madison and wortfm.org. Our playlists and two weeks of archived music programs are also available online. Thank you for listening to Musica Antiqua and community radio. Your financial support is always welcome too.

Image: Handel Aria Competition program cover.

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